| 释义 |
unsoˈlicited, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons: Not approached with solicitation; unasked.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. iii. 60 Of my word, I haue written to effect, Ther's not a God left vnsollicited. 1613― Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 219, I then..got your leaue To make this present Summons vnsolicited. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 365 The devil..steps in..though unsolicited by those conspirators. 1756Connoisseur No. 116 ⁋2 The graduate in medicine, finding himself unsolicited for prescription or advice. 1813Coleridge Lett. (1895) 604 A number of unsolicited, unknown yet predetermined plauditors in the theatre. 1851Huxley in Life & Lett. (1900) I. 90 He had previously been civil enough to sign my certificate.., unsolicited. 1883Meredith Melampus x, Not unsolicited,..the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth..answered question and squeeze.
b. spec. Not asked in marriage.
1750Johnson Rambler No. 73 ⁋2 My aunts, being..neither young nor beautiful,..were suffered to live unsolicited.
2. Not asked for; given or done voluntarily.
1689Savile Let. to Dissenter 30/2 Thanks must be voluntary, not only unconstrained, but unsollicited. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ii. v, [He called] to bring her..fresh and unsolicited intelligence. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxv, I am obliged to your lordship for your unsolicited intercession. 1847Harris Ld. Hardwick III. 107 This appointment was entirely the unsolicited act of His Majesty.
3. Not affected or influenced.
1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 184 If thus, whilst unsolicited by any extraneous chemical forces, its molecular arrangement is so readily altered.
Hence unsoˈlicitedly adv.
1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 285 He..refused the first ecclesiastic dignities, which were unsolicitedly pressed upon him. |