Unchosen

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8 b.)

1529.  More, Dyaloge, IV. Wks. 273/2. And that euery man is either chosen or vnchosen…. And yf we bee of the vnchosen sorte, no good dede can auail vs.

c. 1592.  Marlowe, Jew of Malta, II. In spite of these swine-eating Christians, (Vnchosen Nation, neuer circumciz’d).

1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 54. To be made the perpetuall reader of unchosen books and pamphlets.

1655.  Jer. Taylor, Unum Necess., VI. i. § 29. To be born, was a thing wholly involuntary and unchosen.

1712.  Blackmore, Creation, V. 397. Can actions be denominated wise,… The means unchosen, and unknown the end?

1814.  Wordsw., Excurs., VII. 309. [To] Beguile A solitude, unchosen, unprofessed.

1871.  Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett. (1883), II. 249. [She] never did complain once of her unchosen sufferings … under the writing of that sad book.

  absol.  1849.  Froude, Nemesis of Faith, 127. The sucking children of the unchosen were not saved in Noah’s flood.