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1794. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 59. Your gossip with the commanding officer seems so totally useless and unmotived.
1830. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, I. 286. The sentiments of the personages [are] often superfluous and unmotived.
1885. Pall Mall G., 2 Oct., 5/1. Looking back, we begin to understand actions which seemed dreamily unmotived.