Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not captious; not ready to take objection or offense.
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Examples
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Oh for the uncaptious appetite of these haphazard days!
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Godolphin's friend was a lively young nobleman, of that good-natured, easy, uncaptious temper, which a clever, susceptible, indolent man often likes better than comrades more intellectual, because he has not to put himself out of his way in the comradeship.
Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Godolphin's friend was a lively young nobleman, of that good-natured, easy, uncaptious temper, which a clever, susceptible, indolent man often likes better than comrades more intellectual, because he has not to put himself out of his way in the comradeship.
Godolphin, Volume 5. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"had him _not_ in all his thoughts," such an one I invite to walk with me; and, in spite of all incompleteness and insufficiency, uncaptious of much that may haply be fanciful or false, briefly and in outline to test with me sundry probabilities of the Christian scheme, considered antecedently to its elucidation.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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"had him _not_ in all his thoughts," such an one I invite to walk with me; and, in spite of all incompleteness and insufficiency, uncaptious of much that may haply be fanciful or false, briefly and in outline to test with me sundry probabilities of the Christian scheme, considered antecedently to its elucidation.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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