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  • adjective Not instigated.

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un- +‎ instigated

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Examples

  • Of course there was in Montenegro a certain amount of uninstigated unrest; the wine of politics, which they were now for the first time freely quaffing, had gone to their heads -- it was youth against age, the students were enthusiastic Democrats, the peasants were sturdy Radicals and they did not always restrict themselves to dialectical arguments.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • What, then, I would fain discover, constitutes the peculiar merit of inducing persons uninstigated by motives of economy to fix themselves in the comfortless and filthy city, and call it Paradise?

    Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820

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