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undiˈstinguishing, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Making no distinction or difference; not discriminating:
a. Of persons, personal attributes, etc.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1629) 229 The blunt and undistinguishing witts of the vulgar. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. §16 (1653) 67 If it be a fault in the impetuous, and undistinguishing Vulgar. 1712Addison Spect. No. 291 ⁋7 A sower undistinguishing Critick. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. vi. I. 160 note, The undistinguishing compiler has buried these interesting anecdotes under a load of trivial and un⁓meaning circumstances. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. iii. 102 There is still addressed to undistinguishing minds another objection. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 129 The superficial undistinguishing eye of the general public of Athens.
b. transf. Of things.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 205 There was none of them so imprudent, as to trust their Lives and Fortunes to the undistinguishing Sword of a Forreign Conquerour. 1753W. Roberts Looker-On No. 36, These furious advocates..are at issue with all governments..and would involve them all in one undistinguishing ruin. 1821Southey Vis. Judgem. xi. 19 In undistinguishing battle, Or by pestilence stricken, they fell. 1847G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke II. 230 Numbers of people..were sacrificed to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victorious army.
c. Const. of.
1811Henry & Isabella I. 259 Our..dog.., haply undistinguishing of crimes and evils, kindly fawned upon me.
2. Of actions, etc.: Marked by want of distinction or discrimination; indiscriminate.
a1677Barrow Serm. xxxvi. Wks. 1686 III. 403 Benefits would not be scattered among the crowd of men with so promiscuous and undistinguishing a freeness. 1710Steele Tatler No. 204 ⁋7 An undistinguishing Application of Sounds of Honour. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman II. 60 But don't you think the ridicule rather too undistinguishing? 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. 104 That opposition was..intemperate, undistinguishing and incautious. 1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 201 We need not make it an object of undistinguishing depreciation. |