Unintended

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1649.  Milton, Eikon., xix. 173. By any pretentions in the Parlament, which are now prov’d false, and unintended.

1670.  Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 78. The ridiculous, senseless, and unintended use, which many of them make of concordances.

1740.  Cibber, Apol., 117. The first unintended Favour.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, I. 233. The youthful group was much diverted with this unintended exhibition.

1819.  T. A. Emmet, in F. Moore, Amer. Eloquence (1857), I. 541/2. Though for every voluntary act he must abide the penalties of unforeseen and unintended consequences, yet he is not to answer for a misfortune not occasioned by any act of his.

1835.  Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), I. 153. The unintended good or evil which has followed from our actions.

1844.  Ld. Brougham, Dialogues on Instinct, 66. If you grant me that the wasp carries caterpillars, and the bee makes geometrical figures, to please themselves, or gratify some sense, it is of no importance that either should receive that gratification: its only use is the unknown and unintended consequence of providing for the unborn issue.

1884.  Manch. Exam., 4 Nov., 6/1. The debate very nearly suffered an unintended collapse.

  So Unintendedly adv.

1782.  Paine, Lett. Abbé Raynel (1791), 43. This declaration … has led me unintendedly into a train of metaphysical reasoning.

1818.  Bentham, Ch. Eng., Introd. 34. The intimation thus … unintendedly afforded.