单词 | unpretended |
释义 | unpretendedadj. Not pretended; genuine. Also: unpretentious, unassuming.In quot. 1632: to which no claim has been made. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real soothc888 soothlyc888 soothfastc1175 germanec1384 truea1398 sickera1400 upright?a1500 uncounterfeita1542 righteous1543 legitimate1551 truepennya1556 arrant1570 uncounterfeited1571 real1573 current1578 genuinal1599 unforged1610 unpretended1611 legitime1614 unabusinga1628 Lubish1632 genuine1639 undissembled1651 undissimulate1652 ingenuine1661 infallacious1677 real live1684 unfalsified1688 unmistaken1694 pukka1776 undissimulated1776 unassumed1818 uncynical1824 Simon Pure1834 sure-enough1837 unsimulated1840 straight-out1848 true blue1852 veritable1862 really (and) truly1864 authentic1868 true-metal1868 kosher1896 twenty-four carat1900 honest to goodness1905 echt1916 dinky-di1918 McCoy1928 twenty-two carat1962 right1969 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Impretenso, vnpretended. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena iii. 83 I pretend nothing else than your service..: wherein if my fortune or your benignitie make me so happie, as that my service be acceptable unto you; I shall account in at [perh. read it as] unpretended gaine. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Disc. xx. §21 It is to be supposed he hath no great account to make for unpretended injuries. 1700 J. Sergeant Transnatural Philos. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Your Friendly Affability, and Unpretended Courtesy, is neither deprest by mean Condescensions; nor rais'd above its just Level by the least Disrespectful Height. 1766 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 5 June The difficulty of..acquiring a satisfactory knowledge of unpretended indigence, whereon they might bestow their benevolence. 1828 Cornish Mag. Jan. 15/1 His daughter..pressed upon us their plain but unpretended cheer. 1858 H. Spencer Ess. 1st Ser. iii. 146 How pleasant the little unpretended gatherings of book-societies, and the like. 1862 Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. 2 209 The small and unpretended village Church. 1940 Princeton Alumni Weekly 12 Jan. 333/2 This column, in a very unpretended democratic spirit, is always open to constructive criticism. 1993 B. Hannah Bats out of Hell 219 She was very sick and I knew something was wrong, unpretended and real. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1611 |
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