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unsuˈspicious, a.
(un-1 7).
1595Daniel Civil Wars iv. xxxv, But vnsuspicious magnanimitie Shames such effects of feare, and force to show. 1671Milton Samson 1635 His guide..unsuspitious led him. 1727Thomson Britannia 110 Like brothers live, in amity combin'd, And unsuspicious faith. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. iii. I. 211 The unsuspicious confidence of a man conscious of no crime. 1825Scott Talism. xx, The unsuspicious object of the dark treachery. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1872) II. iii. 165 This place all unsuspicious I forsook For Cytheræa's fane.
b. Const. of or with clause.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. 158 Her Sister,..simply unsuspitious of the sequell, prouided..a pyle of dry Faggots. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 279 Unsuspicious of his remarks..[she] was gay. Ibid. V. 7 Edgar [was] not wholly unsuspicious such an accident might happen. 1825Scott Betrothed iii, He was not unsuspicious, though altogether fearless, of the result.
Hence unsuˈspiciously adv.; unsuˈspiciousness.
a1812Buckminster Serm. (1827) 94 Epistles..*unsuspiciously authentic. 1854Thackeray Newcomes i, Little lambkin was lying unsuspiciously at the side of the wolf.
1809M. Edgeworth Manœuvring iv, A fluent panegyric upon the hereditary *unsuspiciousness of his temper. a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 267 Her absolute unsuspiciousness, and holy entireness of love. |