ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Of persons: Not approached with solicitation; unasked.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., IV. iii. 60. Of my word, I haue written to effect, Ther’s not a God left vnsollicited. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., II. iv. 219. I then … got your leaue To make this present Summons vnsolicited.
1680. C. Nesse, Church Hist., 365. The devil … steps in … though unsolicited by those conspirators.
1756. Connoisseur, No. 116, ¶ 2. The graduate in medicine, finding himself unsolicited for prescription or advice.
1813. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 604. A number of unsolicited, unknown yet predetermined plauditors in the theatre.
1851. Huxley, in Life & Lett. (1900), I. 90. He had previously been civil enough to sign my certificate…, unsolicited.
1883. Meredith, Melampus, x. Not unsolicited,… the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth … answered question and squeeze.
b. spec. Not asked in marriage.
1750. Johnson, Rambler, No. 73, ¶ 2. My aunts, being … neither young nor beautiful,… were suffered to live unsolicited.
2. Not asked for; given or done voluntarily.
1689. Savile, Lett. to Dissenter, 30/2. Thanks must be voluntary, not only unconstrained, but unsollicited.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. v. [He called] to bring her … fresh and unsolicited intelligence.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxv. I am obliged to your lordship for your unsolicited intercession.
1847. Harris, Ld. Hardwick, III. 107. This appointment was entirely the unsolicited act of His Majesty.
3. Not affected or influenced.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., 184. If thus, whilst unsolicited by any extraneous chemical forces, its molecular arrangement is so readily altered.
Hence Unsolicitedly adv.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 285. He … refused the first ecclesiastic dignities, which were unsolicitedly pressed upon him.
