Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making no difference; not discriminating: as, undistinguishing favor.
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- adjective Failing to
distinguish ;undiscerning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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She had, indeed, for some time past, thought Edgar, of too refined and too susceptible a character for the unthinking and undistinguishing
Camilla 2008
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The New Hampshire constitution of 1784, criticizing “sanguinary laws,” voiced a fear that “where the same undistinguishing severity is exerted against all offences; the people are led to forget the real distinction in the crimes themselves, and to commit the most flagrant with as little compunction as they do those of the lightest dye” part I, art.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The New Hampshire constitution of 1784, criticizing “sanguinary laws,” voiced a fear that “where the same undistinguishing severity is exerted against all offences; the people are led to forget the real distinction in the crimes themselves, and to commit the most flagrant with as little compunction as they do those of the lightest dye” part I, art.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The New Hampshire constitution of 1784, criticizing “sanguinary laws,” voiced a fear that “where the same undistinguishing severity is exerted against all offences; the people are led to forget the real distinction in the crimes themselves, and to commit the most flagrant with as little compunction as they do those of the lightest dye” part I, art.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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It is then perfectly proved, that the undistinguishing Jews, although chosen by the God of the universe, regarded him notwithstanding as a mere local god, the god of a particular territory of people, like the god of the Amorites, or that of the
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But it was well for me that thou wert as undistinguishing as the beasts thou drovest; otherwise, what a wild-goose chace had I been led?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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I remember a gentleman who had read history in this thoughtless and undistinguishing manner, and who, having traveled, had gone through the
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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In vain I stretch these eyes, environed with darkness undistinguishing and void.
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