Meanings
- not comparableIn a way that was not designed; as an unexpected consequence; unintentionally.
“He opened his whole heart to me yesterday as we travelled. It came out quite unawares, quite undesignedly. […]”
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 45, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC3 more examples
“[…] Since that time, I have written to her many letters, but never could obtain an answer, which I must own sits somewhat the heavier, as she herself was, though undesignedly, the occasion of all my sufferings […]”
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IVBut we cannot close our remarks upon the apprenticeship system without noticing one good end which it has undesignedly accomplished, i.e., the illustration of the good disposition of the colored people.
1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more completely, though undesignedly, colored by their personal feelings.
1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII
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