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unreˈquired, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons: Not requested or asked; without being asked.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2405 But more frely, with herte ful entere, Liste vnrequered on my wo to rewe. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshman (Percy Soc.) 13 And unrequyred presentynge them, sayde she, O Lorde, these also my veray chyldren be! 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer ii. (1577) H vj b, They..that rashly before a greate man enter into talk vnrequired. 1594T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's Florentine Hist. (1595) 172 Many times also vnrequired he did lend to those Gentlemen. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. xxxii. 266 So free, that he shall willingly undergoe it, when it is laid upon him; not so free as that he shall lay it upon himselfe, unrequired. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 13 How artfully does he (unrequired) promise to observe the conditions?
2. Of things: Unasked for, unsought; not demanded or called for.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) G v, Desire thou none office nor cure... If it unrequired be geuen vnto thee,..do not the same despise. 1559in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 396 As I have found this your good mind unrequired,..I am bold to desire you..to continue in the same. 1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora x. 179 A young Lady, in whose Sex, Courage is..an unrequired, if not an altogether improper, Vertue. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxix, His unrequired presence prevented me from speaking freely to Syddall.
3. Not requisite; unnecessary.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxv, He would make me sensible that it was a superfluity, unrequired by him. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 163 The caution was unrequired. |