Definitions
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- adjective rare Not required to work; unemployed; not busy.
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- adjective Not required to
work ;unemployed ; notbusy .
Etymologies
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un- + busied
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Examples
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Heaven as "placid, tranquil, desireless, inactive, and unbusied" (p. 93), all attributes ascribed by the Taoists to their Mundane Soul, Tao.
Lunheng 1962
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Heaven's fluid is placid, desireless, and unbusied.
Lunheng 1962
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Prudence quietly took to herself a share of the work, and Ralph alone was unbusied.
Stories of Mystery Various 1885
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