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Without being asked
Answer for the clue "Without being asked ", 8 letters:
unbidden
Alternative clues for the word unbidden
Word definitions for unbidden in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English unbedene , "not asked or invited," from un- (1) "not" + bidden . Similar formation in Middle Dutch ongebeden , German ungebeten , Old Norse ubeðinn .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbid \Un*bid"\, Unbidden \Un*bid"den\, a. Not bidden; not commanded. Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. --Milton. Uninvited; as, unbidden guests. --Shak. Being without a prayer. [Obs.] --Spenser. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. not invited, requested or asked for
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not invited or requested; "unbidden guests"; "comments unbid and unwelcome" [syn: unasked , unbid ]
Usage examples of unbidden.
I panted over David and had an unbidden impulse from my boyhood to mount my foot on the bowed neck and wake the jungle with my call, and as the thought came and went unacted upon, I laughed away.
Months after the first words came, unbidden and tremulous, he admitted to himself that he had wasted his life.
I must say no more, except to hint a wish, that the apprehensions which first induced me to name it may, unbidden, occur as timely heralds to exertion, should any untoward circumstances point to danger, alarm, or impropriety.
Berdichev looked down, stifling the laugh that came unbidden to his lips.
She shuddered and began to back away, then put her hand to her mouth to stop the laughter that had come unbidden to her lips.
That was not the right thing, either, but it had come unbidden, as if in challenge, from his darker self.
When tenderness for him welled up in her like the milk that rushed unbidden to her breasts?
The sound welled unbidden from her throat, a rich low outpouring of love and sympathy for the sallow twitching youth who lay on the yellowish sheets, his eyes wild, his hands tensing into claws.
Images swirled unbidden through her mind, stringing themselves together like beads of fire: the kingdom of Avaric ruled over by a darkangel, who stole young girls to be his brides.
He wanted her unbidden response, and he worked towards it, tormenting until he sensed her capitula tion.
I had just been confronted by an evil djinni who had threatened me, and forced words to come unbidden to my lips.
What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
Listener felt her own spines rise up in response, her body obeying an unbidden, ancient instinct.
Unbidden, his corner teeth budded, long, sharp, wolflike, and he felt the warm flush as his eyes reddened.
A memory of waiting in the darkness of alien conduits and seeing an indigo-blue light glowing behind its ice-covered walls had sprung unbidden into her mind.