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non-aˈttached, ppl. a.
[non- 6.]
Not attached; spec. unconcerned or uninvolved with material things. So non-aˈttachment.
1856Oxford & Camb. Mag. Apr. 237/2 The non-attached students no longer receiving help from the religious houses, fell away. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means i. 3 The ideal man is the non-attached man. Non-attached to his bodily sensations and lusts. Non-attached to his craving for power and possessions... Non-attached to his anger and hatred. Ibid. 4 The practice of non-attachment entails the practice of all the virtues. 1940Auden Another Time 23 Over the talkative city like any other Weep the non-attached angels. 1950‘G. Orwell’ Shooting an Elephant 108 In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that ‘non-attachment’ is..better than a full acceptance of earthly life. |