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undeˈsigning, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Not designing or planning. rare.
1673Remarques Humours Town 4 That careless and undesigning way of living now in use. 1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. vii. 260 What..happens to deliberating or designing, and..to inanimate or undesigning beings.
2. Having no ulterior or selfish designs; free from designing or underhand motives.
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 164 Children..believe others as kind and undesigning as themselves. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xix. 130 An undesigning, open heart. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 316 Unsuspicious as she was undesigning, [she] thanked the Baronet for his message. 1866Geo. Eliot Ess. (1844) 336 The undesigning ignorant poor.
b. transf. Of things.
1709in Lady M. W. Montagu's Lett. (1887) I. 47 'Tis a plain undesigning truth, your friendship is the only happiness of my life. 1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr., etc. (1789) II. liv. 44 An open manner, and undesigning civility, distinguish the German character. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xvi, Of such undesigning aspect is his guileless yard now. |