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語源 1

From un- +‎ purpose.

名詞

unpurpose (uncountable)

1. (まれに) Lack or absence of purpose; purposelessness.
   • 1909, Francis Gorham, The Lone Trail at Thirty:

     And being. Cant and braggart insolence,
     And inutility and thoughts which veer
     From purpose to unpurpose, and the sneer
     Upon the thin lips of experience,
     Flee from thy sight as snows when the intense
     Sun of forgotten summers greets the year.

   • 1954, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica:

     Countless demolitions and re-edifications; a thorough unpurpose, so it seems, a thorough futility, that appears to be the truth and what could be more afflicting to an historian?

   • 1958, José García Villa, Selected poems and new:

     A devil has his purpose.
     Between these Hangs my unpurpose.
     So vast is my unpurpose!
     So pure is its cause!
     Between me and my unpurpose
     Blooms God decisive
     Without laws.

   • 1986, Roger J. Faber, Clockwork Garden:

     How could purpose grow out of unpurpose? In those questions lie the seeds of the argument from design and the romantic view of nature.

   • 2007, Sean C. Cusack, High School Memoirs: A Journey In Surrealism:

     Most people could not believe that was the purpose it served. It was more like an un-purpose.

   • 2011, Philip K. Dick, The VALIS Trilogy:

     “And unpurpose gives rise to purpose.”

語源 2

From un- +‎ purpose.

動詞

unpurpose (三人称単数 現在形 unpurposes, 現在分詞 unpurposing, 過去形および過去分詞形 unpurposed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a purpose; to remove or derail the purpose of.
   • 1854, Henry H. Tator, Brother Jonathan's Cottage:

     O, Goodness ! help me to unplan that plan, and to unpurpose that purpose !

   • 1906, Arthur Dillon, King Arthur Pendragon:

     Manifestly so; for by what likelihood
     Had I endured against fourteen knights all armed
     And purposed, I unpurposed and unarmed,
     Save innocency stood my friend?