unbidden
pronunciation
How to pronounce unbidden in British English:
UK [ʌnˈbɪdn]
How to pronounce unbidden in American English:
US [ʌnˈbɪdn]
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- Adjective:
- not invited or requested
Word Origin
- unbidden (adj.)
- Old English unbedene, "not asked or invited," from un- (1) "not" + bidden. Similar formation in Middle Dutch ongebeden, German ungebeten, Old Norse ubeðinn.
Example
- 1. Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone .
- 2. Unbidden guests ; comments unbid and unwelcome .
- 3. Unbidden shall it call in the night , that men may wake and gaze upon themselves .
- 4. These were people I barely knew and seldom spoke to , but it was as if I had come unbidden into their personal gardens .
- 5. In other words , to let the spiritual , unbidden and unconscious , grow up through the common .