单词 | uninquisitive |
释义 | uninquisitiveadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [adjective] > not curious uncurious1570 uninquisitive1595 unsearching1599 incurious1613 unexamining1682 unasking1722 uninvestigating1802 uninquiring1804 unenquiring1813 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. xxxviii. sig. Bb3v Goe loose the lynks of that soule-binding chayne, Inlarge thys vninquisitiue beleefe. a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 154 Of those..have I many times heard (not uninquisitive, I acknowledg..) how [etc.]. 1796 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. xi. 236 Their uninquisitive temper keeps them in a total ignorance about secondary causes. 1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 30 So contented and uninquisitive had every body become. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 103 Mrs. Sedley was of so easy and uninquisitive a nature, that she wasn't even jealous. 1872 J. Tulloch Rational Theol. I. 290 Uninquisitive, unreflecting faith. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1595 |
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