unpursued

From un- +‎ pursued.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌn.pəɹˌsjuːd/

unpursued (not comparable)

1. Not pursued, not followed, not hounded.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 1-4:

     All night the dreadless Angel, unpursu’d,
     Through Heav’ns wide Champain held his way; till Morn,
     Wak’t by the circling Hours, with rosie hand
     Unbarr’d the gates of Light.

   • 1740, Samuel Johnson, “Debate on incorporating the new-raised men into the standing regiments” in The Works of Samuel Johnson, London: John Stockdale, 1787, Vol. 12, Debates in Parliament, p. 62,

     At Guastalla, Sir, they attacked the French in their trenches, even with forces inferiour in number, so far were they from any diffidence in the form of their establishment; and after a fight of seven hours, in which their loss was, under all their disadvantages, not greater than that of their enemies, they retreated to their former camp unmolested and unpursued.

   • 1888, Emily Lawless, chapter 8, in The Story Of Ireland‎, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 63:

     With doubtful patriotism he left the Danes for a while unpursued, attacked Meath, overran and wasted Connaught, and returning suddenly burnt the royal stronghold of Tara.

2. Not pursued, not sought, not engaged in.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, in Lyrical Ballads‎, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: Longman & Rees, pages 156–157:

     […] And thus the soul,
     By that sweet taste of pleasure unpursu’d
     Doth find itself insensibly dispos’d
     To virtue and true goodness.

   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Fabulists”, in A Diversity of Creatures‎, London: Macmillan, page 380:

     Our pleasures unpursued age past recall.