unoccasionedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnəˈkeɪʒnd/, U.S. /ˌənəˈkeɪʒ(ə)nd/ Not occasioned, without occasion or cause. Also: unaccustomed.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > without cause
unsoughtc1350
causelessc1386
unoccasioned1579
uncontrived1612
uncauseda1628
occasionless1631
anaetiological1652
incausable1653
1579 Cyuile & Vncyuile Life (new ed.) sig. M You might haue gathered, that vnoccasioned, or not contryued, no man will resort vnto your Town house.
1679 J. Br. Jesuite Countermin'd 29 Princes in their Methods of Policy, are..little concerned at the scurrilous, peevish, and unoccasioned Descants and Aspersions of their Nettled Subjects.
1747 W. Warburton Wks. Shakespear VIII. 360 (note) This observation seems strangely abrupt and unoccasioned.
1815 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. (1818) 11 467 Paroxysms of pain, unoccasioned by external injury.
1891 Union Pacific Employes' Mag. June 158/2 I had spoken my piece under the disadvantages of surprise and unoccasioned surroundings.
1917 F. H. Cheley Big Brother Investm. i. 4 Such talk was so unlike the Herbert of old, and so unoccasioned.
2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 19 Mar. a19 Lamentably, the insincere, half-hearted, unoccasioned or self-serving apology has become a staple of modern life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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