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unˈurged, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] 1. Not urged or incited to some course of action.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. ii. 115 The time was once, when thou vn-vrg'd wouldst vow, That neuer words were musicke to thine eare. 1623Feltham Resolves i. xxxv. 33 If hee reueales ought vn vrged, my aduice is..free. 1648Herrick Hesper., Twelfe Night iii, Let not a man then be seen here, Who unurg'd will not drinke. 1838F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life I. 187 [The] teeming soil produced, unurged, the means of life. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy 243 You..are brave, unurged by aught Save the sweet overflow of your good will. 2. Not thrust or pressed upon one.
1594Kyd Cornelia iv. i. 160 Shall we then..Submit vs to vnurged slauerie? 1595Shakes. John v. ii. 10 Albeit we sweare..an vn-urg'd Faith, To your proceedings. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 37 Augustine, Anselm, and Hierome, betray themselves by unurged confessions. a1689A. Behn Fair Jilt (1887) 33 She leaves nothing unurged that might debauch and invite him. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 128 Being one day alone with his Son, he..left unurg'd those Arguments which he had prepar'd in his Mind. |