| 释义 |
unpreˈtendingness
[un-1 12.]
Absence of pretension; unassumingness.
1727Boyer Dict. Royal 11, Unpretendingness, modestie. 1768Woman of Honor III. 254 There was in her..so sweet an unpretendingness..as astonished and captivated me. 1832S. Austin tr. Tour Germ. Prince III. xi. 315 She is goodness, cordiality, and unpretendingness itself. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 427 One of the most agreeable [scenes] in the whole play, by reason of its familiar domestic unpretendingness. |