Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not applauding; not cheering or encouraging by or as by applause.

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Examples

  • Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?

    Middlemarch 1871

  • Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • At which Festival the Public again assists, unapplausive: not we.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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