unappropriated love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not designated for a specific use.
  • adjective Not possessed by, spoken for, or formally assigned to a particular person or organization.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not appropriated.
  • Not applied or directed to be applied to any other object, as money or funds: as, unappropriated funds in the treasury.
  • Not granted or given to any person, company, or corporation: as, unappropriated lands.
  • Not appropriated by any person: as, an unappropriated subject for a poem.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not specially appropriate; having no special application.
  • adjective Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others.
  • adjective Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That has not been appropriated for a specific use, or assigned to a specific person or organization.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ appropriated

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