undesigning

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She had but little sympathy with platonic friendships, and she recognised, with that shrewd mother-sense so many women acquire late in life, that Mrs. Otway was a most undesigning widow.

From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

But of this I am sure, Frederick has too much of your own open undesigning temper to entrap you; even though,' added she, with a sly smile, 'he were wholly without hopes from persuasion.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate.

From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles

Guileless and undesigning are you as the yearling lamb; gentle and affectionate as the cooing dove.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

The first comprises all those manifest indications of provident forethought, intelligent design, and moral purpose, which appear in the course of Nature, and which cannot be accounted for by a blind, unintelligent, undesigning cause.

From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James