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unconˈcerning, ppl. a.
[un-1 10 and 5 d.]
Not concerning or affecting one; unconnected with one's affairs or interests; having no importance or relevance.
1612Donne Progr. Soule, 2nd Anniv. 285 To know but Catechismes and Alphabets Of unconcerning things, matters of fact. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv., Jerome (1867) I. 29 They vexed him with trivial objections about unconcerning matters. 1742W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 438 With other topics of the same unconcerning kind. a1779Warburton Unpubl. Papers (1841) 568 It will teach him to distinguish real from imaginary knowledge,..useful from unconcerning. 1821Coleridge Lett., Convers., etc. II. 22 Lonely in an unconcerning crowd of human figures. 1833Lamb Elia ii. Barrenness Imag. Faculty in Modern Art, As if unconscious of Bacchus, or but idly casting her eyes as upon some unconcerning pageant,..Ariadne is still pacing the..shore.
†b. Const. to, or with direct object. Obs.
1647L. Haward Charges Crown Rev. Ded., Having medled with the publishing of such a Subject so unconcerning my own quality. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 87 They will satisfie the Patients thirst with cooling Juleps, be they never so improper for the Malignity Nature hath to struggle with, or unconcerning her assistance to resist. 1667Decay Chr. Piety v. ⁋10. 228 Those things that are either impossible in their nature, or unconcerning to us, cannot beget it. |