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unˈlooked, ppl. a.
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1.
†a. Not attended to; neglected. Obs.
a1300St. Gregory 1064 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LVII. 70 Ȝe witeþ wel hit may nout longe holye churche vnloked be.
b. Not looked at, on, to, etc.; unregarded, unheeded, unexamined.
1563Nowel Serm. bef. Queen (1853) 226 Such errors or heresy ought not..to be unlooked unto. 1581W. S. Compend. or Briefe Exam. 3 Theyr husbandry unlookte to at home. 1615G. Sandys Trav. Ded., Leauing no securitie saue..vnlookt on pouertie. 1654C. Wase Gratius' Cyneget, Pref. 7 The occasion that a polite and classical Poet..should have been so long unlook'd into,..and unsought for in our Land. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics I. 214 The wares lay unlooked at and untouched.
2. Not looked for; unexpected, unanticipated. (In predicative use sometimes quasi-adv.)
1535Coverdale Wisd. xi. 7 Thou gauest vnto thine awne a plenteous water vnloked for. 1544Betham Precepts War ii. xli. K viij b, When they be wythout watch,..then sodaynlye, and vnloked for, rushe vppon them. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 112 The vnlookt-for assault of Achillas. 1672T. Venn Milit. Observ. 192 He shall see them [sc. sentinels] changed at due time, and shall now and then visit them unlook'd for. 1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 164 Oh curst event! and oh unlook'd-for aid! 1837J. D. Lang New S. Wales I. p. v, The causes..producing so unlooked-for and so unfortunate a result. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 30 Elated by an unlooked-for victory.
†b. Without prep., = prec. Obs.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 74 Thei..shal bee able to abashe a righte worthy man,..through the sodein quip & vnloked frumpe geuen. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 214 God, I pray him, That none of you may liue his naturall age, But by some vnlook'd accident cut off. 1618J. Taylor (Water P.) Penniless Pilg. C 2 b, This vnlook'd pleasure, was to me such pleasure, That [etc.].
Hence unˈlookedforness. rare—1.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xvi, The unlookedfornesse of his comming. |