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Unanticipated

adjective

Not anticipated. Synonyms: out of the blue, unforeseen, unlooked-for. "Unforeseen circumstances" , "A virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy" , "Like a bolt out of the blue"

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"Unanticipated" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was not at once introduced. The funds available from an endowment fund crippled by the levying of an enormous "succession tax" by the United States government and by the cost of needed apparatus and of unanticipated expenses, in buildings and in organization, were insufficient to permit the complete organization of this department. A few tools were gathered together; but skilled mechanics could not be employed to take up the work of instruction in the several courses. Little could therefore be done ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 • Various

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... should not feel bound to lean upon what Reason cannot fathom. Nearly all the Old Testament history is a string of legends and myths which an advanced age should indignantly reject. Christ never really intended to establish a permanent religion; the work of his apostles was something unanticipated by himself. His design was to restore Judaism to its former state, throw off the Roman yoke, and declare himself king. His public entry into Jerusalem was designed to be his installation as a temporal king; but he failed in his dependence ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

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Words linked to "Unanticipated" : unexpected, out of the blue, unlooked-for, unforeseen