ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not designed or intended; unintentional.

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1654.  Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 9. Having begg’d Ambixules pardon for an undesign’d wrong.

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1745.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XI. vii. The most undesigned word, the most accidental look,… will be misconstrued.

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1790.  Paley, Horæ Paul., ii. § 2. Such coincidences may fairly be stated as undesigned.

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1847.  J. J. Blunt, Undesigned Coincidences, III. iii. 235. Confirmed as a matter of fact … by an undesigned coincidence.

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1872.  Yeats, Growth Comm., 40. A result undesigned but of great moment followed the policy.

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