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unˈcritical, a.
[un-1 7. Cf. Du. onkritisch, G. unkritisch, Da. ukritisk.]
1. Not critical; lacking in judgement; not addicted to criticism.
1659Gauden Tears Church i. i. 24 We are not so rude understanders, or uncriticall speakers. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy x. xxiv, A most uncritical fever which attacked me at the beginning of this chapter. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 361 She discovered none of the imputed sublimity; her uncritical eye could only scan the tremendous number of pages. 1854Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 20 It has been the ungrateful fashion of some modern historians to speak of him as an uncritical retailer of anecdotes. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xx, He played..well enough to satisfy the uncritical audience.
absol.1874Spencer Study Sociol. v. 81 Statements..readily accepted by the uncritical who believe all they see in print.
2. Showing lack of criticism or critical exactness; not in accordance with critical methods.
1846J. Kenrick Ess. Primæval Hist. Pref. p. xii, An arbitrary and uncritical preference of the Septuagint to the Hebrew. 1855J. Phillips Man. Geology 420 A perverse and uncritical application of the Mosaic narrative. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece vii. 215 It is uncritical to judge an age by its greatest men.
Hence unˈcritically adv.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. 402 Huntington, however, copies it, uncritically. 1858Spencer in Westm. Rev. July 195 We see that the notion, of late years idly repeated and uncritically received,..involves us in sundry absurdities. 1895Blackw. Mag. Nov. 634/1 You took with you a temperament uncritically alert to fresh impressions. |