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uninˈdustrious, a. (un-1 7, 5 b.)
1599Daniel Musoph. Wks. (1602) C iii b, So farre beyond the ordinarie course, That other vnindustrious Ages ran. 1612Donne Lett. (1651) 122, I have [not] been..unindustrious in attempting that [i.e. to do good]. 1667Decay of Chr. Piety xiii. ⁋1 We cannot think it so sluggish or unindustrious an agent. 1693W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxxiv. 216 It were..an unindustrious encroaching on the publick property to attain it. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 805 Hardly an industry, perhaps, or at any rate an unindustrious one. 1887Rider Haggard Jess xxi, That intelligent but unindustrious race. So uninˈdustriously adv.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love xvii. (1659) 115 Ev'n the Socinians..are not a little, or un-industriously sollicitous. |