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unenquiringly en · ADV

Etymology

From unenquiring + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unenquiring manner.
   • The American missionaries, and the native government actuated by the missionaries, threw themselves unenquiringly and at once into a crusade against the prevailing licentiousness of the people. 1862, Manley Hopkins, “Hawaiian Characteristics”, in Hawaii: The Past, Present, and Future of Its Island-Kingdom. […], London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 350:
   • With the best possible intentions, it may be, but still with the least possible insight, they speak of the Bible so much more in conformity with their natural notions of what it ought to be than with other men’s observation of what it is, and give themselves up so unenquiringly to mere traditions concerning it rather than to facts, that they are casting unnecessary stumbling-blocks in the way of many of their brethren who, if weaker in faith are stronger in understanding than themselves, and yet are willing to enter upon the conditions of discipleship with hearts as honest and as earnest as any. 1841–1848, [Frederic Myers], “The Third Book: The Bible”, in Catholic Thoughts on the Bible and Theology, Cambridge, Cambs.: […] C[harles] J[ohn] Clay, M.A. at the University Press, →OCLC, section l, pages 136–137:
   • Let then the whole country at once beastir^([sic]) and clear us from the foul disgrace of passing tacitly and unenquiringly this awful narrative. 1841 August 7, “Extract of a Letter from One of the Doomed Victims in the Hell-Hole of Wakefield”, in The Northern Star, and Leeds General Advertiser, volume IV, number 195, Leeds, West Yorkshire, page 5, column 2:
   • I passed by with a murmured greeting, and the old lady turned and looked at me—merely looked, calmly, unenquiringly, and without uttering a word. 2016, John Banville, “Baggotonia”, in Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 71:

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