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† 1. Free from affectation. Obs.
1602. Ld. Cromwell, III. iii. 13. A most learned, yet vnaffecting spirit.
1713. Steele, Spect., No. 423, ¶ 2. He carries on an unaffecting Exactness in his Dress and Manner.
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., VI. 578. Though a vulgar face … And unaffecting manners might at once Be recognised by all.
2. Not affecting or touching; having no effect upon the feelings.
1647. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, 87. Affected termes are unaffecting things to solid hearers.
1719. Waterland, Vind. Christ’s Div., 277. Abstract Reasons of Esteem, Honour, and Regard are unaffecting, without a mixture of some thing relative to Us.
1763. J. Brown, Poetry & Music, xiii. 233. The Ode must be written in the Style of Passion; not with the Parade of unaffecting Imagery, or tedious Allegory.
1812. Crabbe, Tales, viii. 354. In her tall mirror then she shows a face, Still coldly fair with unaffecting grace.
1823. J. Wilson, Trials Marg. Lyndsay, i. 3. The narrative of whose fortunes may perhaps not be unaffecting to those who [etc.].
