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unconˈsiderable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
= inconsiderable a.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. ii. 43 Better then either the King himselfe, his Cabinet-Counsell, or any unconsiderable Privadoes, Courtiers, Favorites. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 501 My Crime..merited a higher punishment than these unconsiderable wounds. 1668Cressy Ch. Hist. Brit. Errata, Unconsiderable ones [sc. errors] which have hapned by mistake of single Letters resembling one the other. 1914W. J. Locke Fortunate Youth i. 19 Sky and grass and trees and white mass of ladies..and unconsiderable men and boys became a shimmering blur. 1976Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XXVII. 109/2 The rank and file of British Educationalists, sociologists of education and educational psychologists have concentrated their considerable energies and occasionally some not unconsiderable talents on devising arguments to legitimate the equalization of opportunity on moral grounds and to support it on scientific grounds. |