inapprehensive love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not apprehensive; without apprehension; without suspicion or fear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned.

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  • adjective Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ apprehensive

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Examples

  • But what ministres really precious acoss inapprehensive the

    Think Progress » Alito: The Christmas Candidate 2005

  • There had been a moment when, inapprehensive as he was Doll had remembered with a qualm that

    Red Pottage 2004

  • The stillness had been so unearthly that he was not altogether inapprehensive of strange and grim deeds when he charged into them, but precisely as they had submitted to the sea so they submitted to Flanagan.

    Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure. 1897

  • There had been a moment when, inapprehensive as he was, Doll had remembered, with a qualm, that Lord Newhaven could not swim.

    Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

  • They reflect that he sees in Beatrix no more than the makings of a Bernstein; and they are puzzled, when they come to mark the contrast between the two portraitures and the difference between the part assigned to Mrs. Esmond and the part assigned to the Baroness, to decide if he were short-sighted or ungenerous, if he were inapprehensive or only cruel.

    Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

  • The squire came forward to explain, piteously entreated not to expect too much from a woman's inapprehensive wits, which he plainly promised (under eyes that had melted harder men) he would not.

    Evan Harrington — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • The squire came forward to explain, piteously entreated not to expect too much from a woman's inapprehensive wits, which he plainly promised (under eyes that had melted harder men) he would not.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The squire came forward to explain, piteously entreated not to expect too much from a woman's inapprehensive wits, which he plainly promised

    Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • We call it fate, sometimes; stopping short, either blindly inapprehensive of the larger and surer blessedness, or too shyly reverent of what we believe to say it easily out.

    The Other Girls 1865

  • But what a want of self-respect such judgments argue, or rather, want of knowledge what true self-respect is: 'So I believed yesterday, and _so_ now -- and yet am neither hasty, nor inapprehensive, nor malevolent' -- what then?

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

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