different between unpurpose vs unpurposed

English

Alternative forms

• un-purpose

Etymology 1

From un- +? purpose.

Noun

unpurpose (uncountable)

1. (rare) Lack or absence of purpose; purposelessness.

Etymology 2

From un- +? purpose.

Verb

unpurpose (third-person singular simple present unpurposes, present participle unpurposing, simple past and past participle unpurposed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a purpose; to remove or derail the purpose of.

English

Etymology

un- +? purposed

Adjective

unpurposed (comparative more unpurposed, superlative most unpurposed)

1. Without purpose.

   Synonyms: aimless, goalless, purposeless

   • 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon, London, p. 32,^[1]

     If that Law did well to reduce from liberty to bondage for an ingratitude not the greatest, much more became it the Law of God to enact the restorement of a free born man from an unpurpos’d, and unworthy bondage to a rightfull liberty for the most unnatural fraud and ingratitude that can be committed against him.

   • 1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part I, Chapter 5, §3, p. 60,^[2]

     He was distinguished from his fellows by the fact that each year he grew more aware that he hadn’t even a dim candle of talent; that he was ill-planned and unpurposed; that he would have to settle down to the ordinary gray limbo of jobs and offices […]

   • 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, London: Macmillan, Chapter 7,

     ‘Your questions about Mrs Jepp, I can’t possibly answer them, ‘said Mervyn, looking at his watch but unpurposed, settling into his chair […]

2. Not deliberate.

   Synonyms: inadvertent, undesigned, unintended, unintentional; see also Thesaurus:unintentional

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 14,^[3]

     When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then

     To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;

     Or thy precedent services are all

     But accidents unpurposed.

   • 1640, William Whately, Prototypes, London: Edward Langham, The Thirteenth Example, pp. 199-200,^[4]

     […] the Lord will surely accept him and forgive his unpurposed offences and sinnes of meere weakenesse and frailty.

   • 1893, George Gissing, The Odd Women, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 188,^[5]

     It was written in very small characters—perhaps an unpurposed indication of the misgivings with which she allowed herself to pen the words.

   • 1948, Gilbert Murray (translator), Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, London: George Allen & Unwin, p. 33,^[6]

     O pitying strangers, since ye will not hear

     My old blind father, for some tales ye have heard

     Of his unpurposed sin, Oh, still give ear

     To a lost maiden, and accept the word

     I speak for his sake […]