unpursued

Adjective

unpursued (not comparable)

1. Not pursued, not followed, not hounded.
   • All night the dreadless Angel, unpursu’d,
     Through Heav’ns wide Champain held his way; till Morn,
     Wak’t by the circling Hours, with rosie hand
     Unbarr’d the gates of Light.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
   • At Guastalla, Sir, they attacked the French in their trenches, even with forces inferiour in number, so far were they from any diffidence in the form of their establishment; and after a fight of seven hours, in which their loss was, under all their disadvantages, not greater than that of their...1740, Samuel Johnson, “Debate on incorporating the new-raised men into the standing regiments” in The Works of Samuel Johnson, London: John Stockdale, 1787, Vol. 12, Debates in Parliament, p. 62
2. Not pursued, not sought, not engaged in.
   • […] And thus the soul,
     By that sweet taste of pleasure unpursu’d
     Doth find itself insensibly dispos’d
     To virtue and true goodness.1800, William Wordsworth, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, in Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition, volume 2, London: Longman & Rees, pages 156–157
   • Our pleasures unpursued age past recall.1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Fabulists”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, page 380