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单词 unseeking
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unseekingadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈseeking.
(un- prefix1 7b, 4.)
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [adjective] > not
unseeking1583
unsearching1599
1583 in D. H. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 586 Quhairintill his Hienes hes occupeit himself..unseiking the hurt and ruyne of quhatsumevir his subjectis.
1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 272 He might as well have been in England as at Goslar, in the situation which he chose and with his unseeking manners.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xxiii. 207 Love faithful, devoted, unseeking of self, and asking only to bless.
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