Unbeckoned

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without having been beckoned. not-comparable

    "It’s not that Mr. Foner harbors no worry about an attack; his mind can wander unbeckoned to such horrors as a terrorist bomb exploding in the Lincoln Tunnel."

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"It’s not that Mr. Foner harbors no worry about an attack; his mind can wander unbeckoned to such horrors as a terrorist bomb exploding in the Lincoln Tunnel."

Etymology

From un- + beckoned.

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