Undriven

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b and 15. Cf. OE. undrifen.] Not forced on by driving.

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1615. Bp. Hall, Contemp., O. T., X. vi. When maintenance and honour calls him, hee goes vndriuen.

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1697. Dryden, Æneis, X. 499. The doubtful rack of heav’n Stands without motion, and the tyde undriv’n.

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1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. 214. It shall sooner burst than voluntarily, uncompelled, undriven, dictate a measure that shall cast a slur … upon them.

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1892. M. Dods, John, II. xiii. 195. To stand before life as independent, unfettered, undriven men.

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b. Of snow: (App. for DRIVEN ppl. a. 2).

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1833. Disraeli, Cont. Flem., V. xxii. Its [Sunium’s] columns against a dark cloud looked like undriven snow.

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1865. Gosse, Land & Sea, 195. The purity of the undriven snow.

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