a. (UN-1 7.)
1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 414. When young, indeed, In full content, we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves.
a. 1774. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 642. To keep the mind … unanxious for success in her eagerest pursuits.
1844. Thackeray, B. Lyndon, vi. I am not unanxious to experience on myself the effect of the war passion.
1870. W. R. Greg, Polit. Problems, 161. The career of these classes, instead of being easier and more unanxious than it was,… has become … a ceaseless struggle.
Hence Unanxiously adv.
1762. J. Philips’ Poems, Life, 10. This gentleman … sat as unanxiously easy as he did, even in a much humbler fortune.
1861. Wiseman, Lenten Past., in Times, 12 Feb., 5/6. We can safely and unanxiously commit to … our devoted clergy the task [etc.].
1885. Finlayson, Biol. Relig., 52. He ought to do all these things unanxiously.
