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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

não solicitado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nãw so.li.siˈta.du

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unbidden/ʌnˈbɪd.ən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Lágrimas surgiram não solicitadas em seus olhos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Without having been commanded, invited, or asked.

    "Memories of her childhood arose unbidden during the quiet afternoon."
  2. 2

    Spontaneous or voluntary; occurring without external prompting or compulsion.

    "An unbidden tear slipped down his cheek as the music swelled."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English, combining the negative prefix 'un-' (meaning not) with 'bidden', the past participle of 'bidban' or 'biddan' (meaning to ask, command, or invite). Historically evolving from Middle English 'unbidden', it originally referred to actions done without being requested or ordered, maintaining this primary sense into contemporary usage.

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