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unreˈmarkable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. Unworthy of remark or note.
1611Cotgr., Irremarquable, vnremarkable,..no way to be noted. 1632G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xi. Notes 397 Nor is this vnremarkable,..that the Kings-fisher being dead and hung vp by the Neb, turnes alwaies her belly to the wind. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 55 It is not unremarkable what Philo first observed, That [etc.].
†b. Incapable of being observed. Obs.—1
1644Digby Nat. Bodies v. §2. 34 Our vnderstanding to make a compleate notion, must adde something else to this fleeting and vnremarkable superficies that may bring it vnto our acquaintance.
2. Not notable or striking.
1850Kingsley A. Locke xxvii, As we may see by the histories of every remarkable, and many an unremarkable, man. 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 155 We..saw Arahal, an unremarkable white town, on a slight eminence. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 520 An unremarkable sprinkling of other workers.
Add: Hence unreˈmarkably adv.
1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 368 Not to never be caving nicely, precisely, quicely, rebustly, tendrolly, unremarkably. 1981J. Scott Distant View of Death xi. 155 Away, then, went Friday, unremarkably into history. |