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  • adjective unseeing

Etymologies

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un- +‎ regarding

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Examples

  • Alone, in Edinburgh, Murray was saddened by the 'unregarding' irresponsive faces of the people as they passed.

    Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir Andrew Lang 1878

  • Michael was not slow to learn it, as he conserved his own feet among the countless thousands of leather - shod feet of men, ever hurrying, always unregarding of the existence and right of way of a lowly, four-legged Irish terrier.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • I'll be on my way, then, 'said Cadfael to the unregarding air, and mounted softly, not to break the spell that held them still.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • I'll be on my way, then, 'said Cadfael to the unregarding air, and mounted softly, not to break the spell that held them still.

    The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987

  • There were retired little falls in it, that seemed like nuns, so unregarding as they were of all the commotion about them.

    Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

  • The only words however, that met the unregarding ears of the sailors, were some such exclamations as these.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • But now -- now she would go over them -- go straight ahead, unregarding of the mountains between, to where

    The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler

  • Himself is the cause and rule of His indifferent and unregarding despotism around.

    Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam

  • And then, the tiny insect, the ant -- that living, silent monitor to unregarding men -- doth it not make its own galleries, build with toilsome art its own abiding place?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

  • Nor must we leave him in heavy captivity to the thought of oblivion in the unregarding welter of the near republic, of plunging into more strenuous activities and abandoning his ideal, in queer inverted analogy to the refuging of weak women in a convent.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

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