单词 | unenquiring |
释义 | unenquiringadj. (un- prefix1 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [adjective] > not curious uncurious1570 uninquisitive1595 unsearching1599 incurious1613 unexamining1682 unasking1722 uninvestigating1802 uninquiring1804 unenquiring1813 1813 C. Lamb Play-house Mem. in Wks. (1908) I. 202 I love the unenquiring gratitude of such spectators. 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 65 He is a son of the church because he is unenquiring. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 373 It demands..unenquiring condemnation and unpitying punishment. Derivatives unenˈquiringly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [adverb] > without curiosity incuriously1603 uncuriously1667 unenquiringly1841 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §50. 191 They give themselves up..unenquiringly to mere traditions concerning it. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 350 The American missionaries..threw themselves unenquiringly..into a crusade against the prevailing licentiousness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1813 |
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