Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unapprehensive. (Davies.)
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Examples
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Unthinking creatures have some comfort in the shortness of their views; in their unapprehensiveness; and that they penetrate not beyond the present moment: in short that they are unthinking! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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There fore it is a strange unapprehensiveness of the real state and condition of mankind, which those are guilty of, who decry preaching as a needless thing.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Security; or unapprehensiveness of any future threatening danger.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Unthinking creatures have some comfort in the shortness of their views; in their unapprehensiveness; and that they penetrate not beyond the present moment: in short that they are unthinking!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725
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"Ah," replied the shepherdess, her eye moistened with despair, and beaming with unapprehensiveness, "how strange and impracticable an advice do you suggest!
Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796
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