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unsurˈprising, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 34 Purity from committing any, foreknown, and unsurprising, venial sin. 1688in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 351 It was no unsurprising spectacle. 1740Cibber Apol. 69 Without this..the Performance will come out..somewhere defectively, unsurprizing to the Hearer. 1927New Republic 12 Oct. 219/1 The unsurprising result is a sermon of the first class, and a novel of the third. 1975Listener 18 Dec. 819/1 Adaptations of Dickens's works..are meant to make you feel good. This is unsurprising, as..it could be argued that this is exactly how Dickens intends you to feel.
Hence unsurˈprisingly adv.
1961in Webster. 1972Bankers Mag. (Boston, Mass.) Winter 73/1 Unsurprisingly, no agency has ever approved any proposal that would reduce its own supervisory role. 1979Field 28 Nov. 1417/2 The passage concluded unsurprisingly. |