unobjectingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ objecting +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unobjectingly (not comparable)

  1. Without objection or disagreement; not objectingly.
    • 2004, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 288, →ISBN:
      Once in two hours, night and day, Nora came to Dorothy's bedside and offered some delicate nourishment; Dorothy took it unobjectingly.
    • 2011 September 30, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Demons: A Novel in Three Parts, London: Vintage Digital, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 330, →ISBN:
      The merchant unobjectingly began to drink his syrup.
    • 1882, United States. Court of Claims, Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the ... with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court, Washington: W.H. & O.H. Morrison, →OCLC, page 246:
      It would have been well had he never broken it; for not only was there no lawful promise to him, such as he alleges, but, by his keeping silence at a time when, if ever, he ought to have spoken, and by his unobjectingly receiving payment of what was awarded him, he effectually barred his own way to a recovery of any more here.
    • 1879, Harry Willard French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, Boston: Lee and Shepard, →OCLC, page 48:
      He knew his desires and ambition; and instead of passing unobjectingly, as he admits, into one plan or another, he should have asserted himself, and let Art claim her own.

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