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unbidden

Adjective

Meaning

Not bidden; not commanded.

Uninvited; as, unbidden guests.

Being without a prayer.

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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted. Edmund White

For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus. Hesiod

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. Abraham Verghese

He that comes unbidden goes unthanked. Dutch Proverb

Who comes unbidden departs unthanked. German Proverb

The place of an unbidden guest is behind the door. Hungarian Proverb

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