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▪ I. unˈfeeling, vbl. n.
[un-1 13.]
Lack of feeling. Also, an instance of this.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. 285 Indolencie or vnfeeling of paine. 1805Monthly Mag. XIX. 657 The rapacity, the selfish unfeeling, the low cunning of Odysseus. 1919V. Woolf Night & Day xxiv. 331 The chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life.
▪ II. unˈfeeling, ppl. a.
[un-1 10 and 5 d.]
1. Having no feeling or sensation, insensible; fig. not sensitive to impressions, etc.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 264 Yfele swilas unfelende. a1300Cursor M. 24426 Quen i sagh þus all thinges..Vn⁓feland for þair lauerd murn, Moght i me noght for-ber. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 31 For þay wot not hem self þat þay are [offended] whyl þay are bot vnfelyng matere. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 103 Vnfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispence. 1593― 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 145 Fain would I go to chafe his palie lips,..And with my fingers feele his hand, vnfeeling. 1619J. Taylor (Water P.) Kicksey Winsey Wks. (1630) 42/1 They must not take me for a Stupid asse, That I (vnfeeling) will let these things passe. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 127 [He] pressed his lips to the pale and unfeeling lips. 1780Cowper Progr. Error 528 So one..Woo'd an unfeeling statue for his wife. 1846Trench Mirac. iv. 36 When he blesses, it is men; but when he smites, it is an unfeeling tree. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 223 All my weeping can recall her never, Back from the cold unfeeling sod!
b. Const. of, to, or with direct object.
1744Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 3 (1748) I. 113 It is sure a pleasure which no words can paint!—No heart unfeeling it conceive! 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. liv, But should to fame your hearts unfeeling be,..Then hear [etc.]. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 119 They appeared so cheerful and unfeeling of their own wretchedness.
2. Devoid of kindly or tender feelings; uncompassionate, unsympathetic.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 63 This is no answer thou vnfeeling man, To excuse the currant of thy cruelty. 1598–9B. Jonson Case is Altered v. iii, O heauen! can it be? That man should liue with such vnfeeling soules, Without or touch or conscience of religion? 1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 319 The broadest mirth unfeeling Folly wears, Less pleasing far than Virtue's very tears. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. (1787) III. xxx. 167 note, The bloody actor is less detestable than the cool unfeeling historian. 1818Scott Rob Roy xviii, I was neither a false lover nor an unfeeling son. 1883Froude in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. III. 204 John Carlyle..had been rough and unfeeling.
absol.1742Gray Prospect Eton Coll. 94 The tender [groan] for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. |