"unpurpose" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1909, Francis Gorham, The Lone Trail at Thirty",
          "text": "And being. Cant and braggart insolence,\nAnd inutility and thoughts which veer\nFrom purpose to unpurpose, and the sneer\nUpon the thin lips of experience,\nFlee from thy sight as snows when the intense\nSun of forgotten summers greets the year.",
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          "ref": "1954, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "1958, José García Villa, Selected poems and new",
          "text": "A devil has his purpose.\nBetween these Hangs my unpurpose.\nSo vast is my unpurpose!\nSo pure is its cause!\nBetween me and my unpurpose\nBlooms God decisive\nWithout laws.",
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          "ref": "1986, Roger J. Faber, Clockwork Garden",
          "text": "How could purpose grow out of unpurpose? In those questions lie the seeds of the argument from design and the romantic view of nature.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Sean C. Cusack, High School Memoirs: A Journey In Surrealism",
          "text": "Most people could not believe that was the purpose it served. It was more like an un-purpose.",
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          "ref": "2011, Philip K. Dick, The VALIS Trilogy",
          "text": "And unpurpose gives rise to purpose.",
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          "ref": "1906, Arthur Dillon, King Arthur Pendragon",
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