unparticipated love

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  • adjective Not participated in; done alone.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ participated

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Examples

  • Applied to the first ontological principle, or to the Christian God, the result is to let all the multiple, complex creatures participate in their ultimate Source while the divine Creator remains simple, unparticipated and unchanged.

    Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

  • Cares unparticipated, griefs uncommunicated, stifled resentments, and unremitting weariness!

    Camilla 2008

  • All my feelings, even of exultation and triumph, were changed to bitterness, if unparticipated; Perdita, even in joy, fled to loneliness, and could go on from day to day, neither expressing her emotions, nor seeking a fellow-feeling in another mind.

    Introduction, I.1 2002

  • She was for a while the sole object of his reveries; and Perdita became aware that his thoughts and time were bestowed on a subject unparticipated by her.

    The Last Man 2003

  • All my feelings, even of exultation and triumph, were changed to bitterness, if unparticipated; Perdita, even in joy, fled to loneliness, and could go on from day to day, neither expressing her emotions, nor seeking a fellow-feeling in another mind.

    The Last Man 2003

  • All that he now enjoyed would have been devoid of pleasure to him, had it been unparticipated.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Its participants, then, link with it as with something unparticipated, something never appropriated: thus only can it remain intact within itself and within the multiples in which it is manifested.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Yet the little is Elemental [52] Cause of all, for nowhere will you find the idea of the little unparticipated.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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