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unpreˈsuming, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1770Akenside Pleas. Imag. iv. 16 An unpresuming guest. 1779Moore View of Soc. France, etc. I. 28 Unpresuming in argument, and..as well bred as those who have no other pretension. 1793V. Knox Lett. to Yng. Nobleman Wks. 1824 V. 91 To the entire exclusion of modest unpresuming men. 1830W. L. Bowles Ken I. p. xviii, The descendant of the great though unpresuming Locke. 1866Liddon Bampton Lect. i. (1875) 7 The most unpresuming of the titles of the Messiah.
Hence unpreˈsumingness.
a1859De Quincey in H. A. Page Life (1877) II. xix. 199 Two sound qualities are at the root of these unpleasant phenomena—modesty or unpresumingness in the first place. |
