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unoˈriginal, a. and n.
[un-1 7, 12.]
1. Having no origin; uncreated.
1667Milton P.L. x. 477 Plung'd in the womb Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde.
2. a. Not original; derivative; second-hand.
1774Gerard Ess. Genius 42 Nothing appears in it uncommon or new; every thing is trite and unoriginal. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 57 The evidence may be termed unoriginal in so far as the narrating witness..speaks of some other person and not of himself. a1849Poe Diddling Wks. 1865 IV. 269 He would return a purse..upon discovering that he had obtained it by an unoriginal diddle. 1897W. P. Ker Epic & Rom. 329 The ‘Song of Roland’ is comparatively late and unoriginal.
b. n. One who lacks originality.
1847Medwin Life Shelley II. 203 A cold, selfish, mathematical unoriginal, like Hobbes.
Hence unoˈriginally adv.
1934in Webster. 1963V. Nabokov Gift v. 297 ‘And so I'll never see him again,’ he told himself, unoriginally. 1964Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 15 Several handbooks discuss our problem either too cursorily or too unoriginally to invite analysis. |