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unˈguided, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not guided in a particular path or direction; left to take one's own course or way.
1585Abp. Sandys Serm. xix. 341 The ship cannot keepe hir right course vnguided but will fall vpon euerie sande. 1633Fletcher & Shirley Night-Walker iv. i, Ha. The world's a Labyrinth, where unguided men Walk up and down to find their weariness. 1674Boyle Grounds Corpusc. Philos. 3 The material parts being able by their own unguided motions, to cast themselves into such a system. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 441 Unguided hence my trembling steps I bend. 1801Southey Thalaba i. xviii, Not by Heaven unseen, Nor in unguided wanderings, hast thou reach'd This secret place. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxi. 211 The dogs speed from hut to hut, almost unguided by their drivers. 1891T. Hardy Tess ii, An unguided ramble into its recesses in bad weather.
b. fig. Of action, conduct, etc.: Undirected, uncontrolled.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 59 Th' vnguided Dayes, And rotten Times, that you shall looke vpon. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. viii. 37 Passions unguided, are for the most part meere Madnesse. 1711Steele Spect. No. 167 ⁋1 The unhappy Force of an Imagination, unguided by the Check of Reason and Judgment. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 136 He..has left his own household unchastened and unguided. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 26 It [Protestantism] sprung up spontaneously, unguided, unexcited,..among the masses of the nation. a1880Geo. Eliot Leaves fr. Note-bk., Ess. (1884) 364 They are not left to their own unguided rashness, or their own unguided pusillanimity.
Hence unˈguidedly adv.
1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. ii. i. 153 To discharge all his actions at randome, and permit his natural appetites to run unguidedly at a venture. 1885E. F. Byrrne Entangled i. xi, Her tongue spoke strangely and unguidedly. |