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单词 unmercenary
释义 unˈmercenary, a.
(un-1 7.)
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. i. Pref. (ed. 2) A ij b, The cordiallest Endevours of a reall unmercenary Philo-pater.1692Atterbury Serm. (1726) I. 19 Praise is a generous and unmercenary Principle.1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus ii. 135 An Inbred and Unmercenary Goodness of Temper.1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxix, She was all impulse; a shifty piece of unmercenary stratagem occasionally directing it.
Hence unˈmercenariness.
1863N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 301 The genus ‘he-flirt,’ a race which is unhappily increased by the unmercenariness of mothers and chaperones.
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