unappreˈhensiveness
[un-1 12.]
Lack of apprehension.
| 1661 Baxter Mor. Prognost. (1680) i. §4 If..a Natural Unapprehensiveness Blocks up the Way, even Time and Labour will never..bring any, to any great Eminency of Understanding. 1671 Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xix. 127 By reason of the Unapprehensiveness which God puts into us. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. ii. 6 Unthinking creatures have some comfort in the shortness of their views; in their unapprehensiveness. c 1833 Mrs. Sherwood Life xxxi. (1854) 567 That unaccountable unapprehensiveness which so often foreruns any severe affliction. |