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  • adjective Not noting; failing to pay attention or observe.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ noting

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Examples

  • Keen looked with yearning upon the woman, and she, unnoting, held her eyes steadfastly upon her father's face.

    IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH 2010

  • And so she lived, unnoting the many and great changes that took place from year to year in Nueva California -- San Gabriel losing its greatness and power, ceasing, even, together with all the others, its life as a mission, and the province itself torn from the grasp of

    Old Mission Stories of California Charles Franklin Carter

  • Before listless, unnoting eyes drifted the crystal mornings, the golden hours steeped deep in summer languors, the miracles of sun-settings and star-filled holy nights.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • So I may not leave the field of southern song, unnoting its noblest strain -- its funeral hymn!

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • Keen looked with yearning upon the woman, and she, unnoting, held her eyes steadfastly upon her father's face.

    In the Forests of the North 1902

  • The after-supper crowd in the hotel barroom had suddenly slipped away, leaving Max Barkeep, three others, and John Wesley Pringle -- the last not unnoting of nudge and whisper attending the exodus.

    The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

  • It was to be seen here to-night; but the judge's eye was bent another way, and he passed on, unnoting.

    Dark Hollow Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • I should then have thought I could never forget it, but I must have passed it several times unnoting in my latest

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • Oh the cold forms that have lain upon these unnoting rocks!

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

  • He who would have passed Edith in surly unnoting indifference on the open street in the garish light of day, now took the keenest interest in her.

    What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863

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