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† unsinˈcerity Obs.
[un-1 12 and 5 b.]
1. Impurity; admixture. Cf. insincerity 1.
1668Boyle Physiol. Ess. 108 A Spirit of Sea-Salt may without any unsincerity be so prepar'd, as to dissolve the body of crude Gold.
2. Lack of sincerity; = insincerity 2.
1646Hammond Tracts 42 An argument of the unsincerity of that contrition. 1692Norris Two Treat. Div. Light i. 67 See the Inconsistency and Unsincerity of this Writer! 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule (1717) II. 189 All this opens a prospect to the Bottom of their Hearts, and manifests their Unsincerity. |