unenquiringly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unenquiring manner.
Example Sentences
- "Let then the whole country at once beastir^([sic]) and clear us from the foul disgrace of passing tacitly and unenquiringly this awful narrative."
- "With the best possible intentions, it may be, but still with the least possible insight, they speak of the Bible so much more in conformity with their natural notions of what it ought to be than with other men’s observation of what it is, and give themselves up so unenquiringly to mere traditions concerning it rather than to facts, that they are casting unnecessary stumbling-blocks in the way of many of their brethren who, if weaker in faith are stronger in understanding than themselves, and yet are willing to enter upon the conditions of discipleship with hearts as honest and as earnest as any."
- "The American missionaries, and the native government actuated by the missionaries, threw themselves unenquiringly and at once into a crusade against the prevailing licentiousness of the people."
- "I passed by with a murmured greeting, and the old lady turned and looked at me—merely looked, calmly, unenquiringly, and without uttering a word."
Etymology
From unenquiring + -ly.