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unˈchosen, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 b.)
1529More Dyaloge iv. Wks. 273/2 And that euery man is either chosen or vnchosen... And yf we bee of the vnchosen sorte, no good dede can auail vs. c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta ii, In spite of these swine-eating Christians, (Vnchosen Nation, neuer circumciz'd). 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 54 To be made the perpetuall reader of unchosen books and pamphlets. 1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. vi. i. §29 To be born, was a thing wholly involuntary and unchosen. 1712Blackmore Creation v. 397 Can actions be denominated wise,..The means unchosen, and unknown the end? 1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii. 309 [To] Beguile A solitude, unchosen, unprofessed. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. (1883) II. 249 [She] never did complain once of her unchosen sufferings..under the writing of that sad book.
absol.1849Froude Nemesis of Faith 127 The sucking children of the unchosen were not saved in Noah's flood. |