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  1.  † a. Not attended to; neglected. Obs.

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a. 1300.  St. Gregory, 1064, in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LVII. 70. Ȝe witeþ wel hit may nout longe holye churche vnloked be.

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  b.  Not looked at, on, to, etc.; unregarded, unheeded, unexamined.

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1563.  Nowel, Serm. bef. Queen (1853), 226. Such errors or heresy ought not … to be unlooked unto.

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1581.  W. S., Compend. or Briefe Exam., 3. Theyr husbandry unlookte to at home.

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1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., Ded. Leauing no securitie saue … vnlookt on pouertie.

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1654.  C. 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.

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1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics, I. 214. The wares lay unlooked at and untouched.

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  2.  Not looked for; unexpected, unanticipated. (In predicative use sometimes quasi-adv.)

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1535.  Coverdale, Wisd. xi. 7. Thou gauest vnto thine awne a plenteous water vnloked for.

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1544.  Betham, Precepts War, II. xli. K viij b. When they be wythout watch,… then sodaynlye, and vnloked for, rushe vppon them.

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1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 112. The vnlookt-for assault of Achillas.

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1672.  T. Venn, Milit. Observ., 192. He shall see them [sc. sentinels] changed at due time, and shall now and then visit them unlook’d for.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., XXII. 164. Oh curst event! and oh unlook’d-for aid!

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1837.  J. D. Land, New S. Wales, I. p. v. The causes … producing so unlooked-for and so unfortunate a result.

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1878.  Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 30. Elated by an unlooked-for victory.

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  † b.  Without prep., = prec. Obs.

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1553.  T. Wilson, Rhet., 74. Thei … shal bee able to abashe a righte worthy man,… through the sodein quip & vnloked frumpe geuen.

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1594.  Shaks., 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.

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1618.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Penniless Pilg., C 2 b. This vnlook’d pleasure, was to me such pleasure, That [etc.].

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  Hence Unlookedforness, rare1.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. xvi. The unlookedfornesse of his comming.

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