unprotesting
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + protesting.
Adjective
[edit]unprotesting (comparative more unprotesting, superlative most unprotesting)
- Not protesting; compliant, docile.
- 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst[1]:
- And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her.
- 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child[2]:
- Just as the parental attitude toward the nearest neighbours suggested a kindly but unsentimental tolerance of inferiors, so it became unmistakably tinged with a slightly jealous but unprotesting submission to superiors whenever the lower floors were reached.