unsought

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Unsought meanings are avoided; minor climaxes are exactly that, no more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay,—impotent in age, Unsought, thou holdst a corner of the stage And ceasest even dumbly to aspire.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

Unsubstantial as Duessa or Armida or Circe or Morgan le Fay are the witch-queen of the Wood beyond the World and the sorceress of the enchanted Isle of Increase Unsought.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

For thou must know that this land is one of the Isles of the Lake, and is called the Isle of Increase Unsought.

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

Unsought Honour.—After his last Birthday, Mr. Gladstone was unanimously elected a Member of "the Eighty Club."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir