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unexˈpected, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 and 5 b.)
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. v, In such an unexpected mischiefe. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 50/1 Because of vnexpected accidentes, he is blamed, disdayned and diffamed. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 5 An vnexpected violent gust. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 162 The unexpected addition is no part of the Punishment. 1733Berkeley Let. Wks. 1871 IV. 204 This circumstance, not foreseen, occasions an unexpected delay. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxx. (1787) III. 147 Stilicho..suddenly repressed, by his unexpected presence, the enemy. 1825Scott Talism. iii, His attention was suddenly caught by an unexpected apparition. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. xviii. §750 The most unexpected discovery of all.
absol.1884in Littell's Living Age April 125/2 He is very great in the art of the unexpected. 1891Bartlett Fam. Quots. (ed. 9) 701 The unexpected always happens.—A common proverb. 1892[see unexpectable]. |