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unexˈpensive, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
= inexpensive a.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 305 Providence..hath ever bred me up in plenty, although my life hath not bin unexpensive in learning, and voyaging about. 1727Thomson Britannia 204 Then cherish this, this unexpensive power,..By lavish Nature thrust into your hand. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 74/2 His sacrifices..consisting chiefly of..simple and unexpensive things. 1834H. Martineau Farrers ii. 21 Mr. Farrer eschewed luxuries, except a few of the most unexpensive. 1859Mill Lett. (1910) I. 233 Neither they nor the Tories wish to make elections unexpensive.
Hence unexˈpensively adv., -ness.
1815Jane Austen Emma xxv, Keeping little company, and that little unexpensively. 1825Carlyle Schiller (1845) App. 285 Add to this the unexpensiveness to me of such a town as Weimar. |