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uninˈventive, a.
(un-1 7.)
1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad Dissert. 164/1 A most servile uninventive imitation of the sixth Eneid. 1783Blair Lect. I. 349 Nature..appears, to his uninventive genius, exhausted by those who have gone before him. 1816Q. Rev. XV. 71 One is of a dry and uninventive faculty. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. iii. VI. 447 The inert and un⁓inventive disciple of the Western philosophy.
Hence uninˈventively (Webster, 1847), -ness.
1863Sat. Rev. 14 March 335/2 The very grotesqueness and uninventiveness..which distinguished the illuminations of Tuesday. |