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  • adjective Not shepherded; without a guiding influence.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ shepherded

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Examples

  • He had no fears for Katharine, but there was a suspicion at the back of his mind that Cassandra might have been, innocently and ignorantly, led into some foolish situation in one of their unshepherded dissipations.

    Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

  • On our way back through the streets, unshepherded this time, Kyral's tongue was loosened as if with a great release from tension.

    The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • It is hovering, unshepherded and visionless, on the brink of disaster.

    The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • He had no fears for Katharine, but there was a suspicion at the back of his mind that Cassandra might have been, innocently and ignorantly, led into some foolish situation in one of their unshepherded dissipations.

    Night and Day 1920

  • In the clean, smooth paths of the middle sky and highest up in air, drift, unshepherded, small flocks ranging contrarily.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

  • In the clean, smooth paths of the middle sky and highest up in air, drift, unshepherded, small flocks ranging contrarily.

    The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

  • They appeal greatly to Jesus, like unshepherded sheep.

    Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 1897

  • He had little of the pastoral spirit; I do not think that he yearned over unshepherded souls, or primarily desired to seek and save the lost.

    Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • They seemed to Him, not merely a mob of intrusive sight-seers, but like a huddled mass of unshepherded sheep.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • The broken lights in the work of a good painter wander like flocks upon the hills, not unshepherded; speaking of life and peace: the broken lights of a bad painter fall like hailstones, and are capable only of mischief, leaving it to be wished they were also of dissolution.

    The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

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