单词 | uncritically |
释义 | uncriticallyadv. 1. Esp. in the context of the scholarly analysis or evaluation of texts: in a way which is not in accordance with critical methods or which lacks critical exactness. ΚΠ 1731 R. Smalbroke Vindic. Miracles II. ii. 326 He most uncritically insinuates from him, that the famous Ignatius of Antioch was the little Child whom Jesus blessed, took up in his Arms, and set in the midst of his Disciples. 1845 B. Thorpe tr. J. M. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. under Anglo-Saxon Kings I. Introd. p. xxxii Its chief basis is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and a Welsh chronicle, into which the author has interwoven many British traditions, though very uncritically and unchronologically. 1969 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 35 596 His concepts are hopelessly imprecise, his analyses uncritically eclectic, his analogies misguidingly loose. 2007 Church Hist. 76 664 The importance and significance of these Bibles is left uncritically analyzed. 2. In a way which does not judge harshly or censoriously; (also) in a way which lacks good judgement or discernment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb] indifferentlyc1374 indistinctlyc1420 confusedly?1531 undistinctly1548 confusely?c1550 without respect?c1550 without choice1576 intermixedlya1586 unrespectively1586 pell-mell1587 promiscuously1593 mixedly1597 indiscriminate1598 promiscually1602 swoopstake1603 promiscuous1616 irrespectively1624 muddily1648 indiscriminately1652 humdrum1660 indiscriminally1665 undistinguishingly1665 indeterminatelya1676 indiscriminatively1684 indistinguishably1689 indiscretely1698 indistinctively1699 undiscerningly1707 uncritically1763 indiscriminatingly1824 undiscriminatingly1894 unfastidiously1929 1763 Minutes Several Conversat. (Wesleyan Methodist Church) (rev. ed.) 13 Searching the Scripture, by..hearing: Constantly? Every Morning? Humbly? Uncritically, devoutly? 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 634/1 You took with you a temperament uncritically alert to fresh impressions. 1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie iii. 40 She loved her parents distractedly and uncritically. 2019 Cape Argus (Nexis) 3 July (E1 ed.) 10 The results of opinion polls are often uncritically accepted by the public. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adv.1731 |
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