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unconˈcerned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Devoid of concern or interest; uninterested, indifferent, unmoved.
c1635Waller Misc., On Lady Isabella 2 Such moving sounds from such a careless touch! So unconcern'd her self, and we so much! 1659Gentl. Calling (1696) 2, I have been no unconcerned..Spectator of the Depression the Gentry have fallen under. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiii. 169 Canst thou, oh cruel! unconcern'd survey Thy lost Ulysses, on this signal day? 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 81 See but how he smiles..in defiance of all his efforts to look unconcerned! 1822Scott Peveril xxxiii, Had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him.
b. Const. about, at, in.
1659Pearson Creed vii. 614 If there were no other judge beside our own soules, we should be..wholly unconcern'd in our own condemnations. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 155 To suppose that he has made the Nature of Man such, that..he should be unconcerned about the Happiness of his Neighbour. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. xiii, He was not unconcerned at the accident. 1822Lamb Elia i. Artificial Comedy, A passing pageant, where we should sit as unconcerned at the issues,..as at a battle of the frogs and mice.
c. Of feeling, conduct, etc.
1658Phillips, Indifference, a carelesse, general, and unconcerned affection. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 617 The holy man gave him an unconcern'd answer. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 14 The same strength and depth and richness,..poured out in unconcerned profusion from the lap of nature. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxxvii, He saw Soapey Sponge's preparations for departure with an unconcerned air.
2. Not affected by concern or anxiety; free from solicitude; undisturbed.
1660Cowley Ode his Majesty's Restoration xv, Me⁓thoughts I saw the three Judæan Youths..In the Chaldæan Furnace walk; How chearfully and unconcern'd they talk! 1685Dryden Thren. August. i, We liv'd as unconcern'd and happily As the first Age in Natures golden Scene. 1747Hervey Medit., Contempl. Night (1840) 226 To be utterly unconcerned, where it is the truest wisdom to take the alarm. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 226 If I had been cool and unconcerned..; but I was in a fright. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 351, I attempted to look as unconcerned as possible.
3. Indifferent or uninterested between two parties; disinterested, impartial.
1664Atkyns Orig. Printing Ded. C ij b, I have so far prevailed upon your Royal Goodness, as to ask unconcern'd Councel what is best to be done. 1697Dryden æneis x. 166 Each to his proper fortune stand or fall; Equal and unconcerned I look on all. a1718Prior Poems, Democritus & Heraclitus 5 Between You both I unconcern'd stand by. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxx, I begged to be examined by some unconcerned person on board.
4. Not concerned or involved, having no part or share, in something.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §7 They believed there was no part of their Civil Government, uninvaded by them, and no Persons of what Quality soever unconcerned and..unhurt in them. 1683Apol. Prol. France i. 9 The two Successors of Henry the Fourth look'd not upon themselves as unconcern'd in this Edict. 1764Harmer Observ. iv. §14. 163 The robb of grapes..is, I should think, unconcerned in this enquiry.
b. Not concerned or occupied with something.
1667Milton P.L. xi. 174 The Morn, All unconcern'd with our unrest, begins Her rosie progress smiling. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iv. §16 They were indolent gods, unconcerned with human affairs.
c. Without const. Also ellipt., not affected by drink; sober. (Cf. concerned ppl. a. 2.)
1668Howe Bless. Righteous 5 Not..as an unconcern'd circumstance, that hath nothing to do with the businesse spoken of. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. p. lxxvi, It's a very difficult thing, for a person unconcern'd and out of the reach of Harm, to be a fair Arbitrator there. 1748Richardson Clarissa VII. 373 Mowbray and Tourville grew very noisy... As to myself, the little part I had taken in their gaiety kept me unconcerned. |