a. [UN-1 7 and 5 b.]

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  Hence, in recent use, unadventurously, -ness.

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1671.  Milton, P. R., III. 243. The wisest, unexperienc’t, will be ever … Irresolute, unhardy, unadventrous.

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1861.  Craik, Hist. Eng. Lit., I. 35. His attempts are of the slightest character, and unadventurous as they are, nobody can undertake to say … whether they are well or ill done.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 312. The shorthorns and unadventurous beeves of more … succulent pastures.

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