ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
a. 1729. J. Rogers, Serm. (1736), 173. An easy unaspiring Temper which rests satisfy’d with its present Share of the Bounties of Providence.
1806. R. Mant, Poems, To Bp. Durham, I. 2. She loves … To cheer with unaspiring lay The dear domestic shade.
1852. Ld. Cockburn, Jeffrey, I. 103. The unaspiring life, I believe, has the least positive wretchedness.
Hence Unaspiringness.
1681. Whole Duty Nations, 64. The Humility, Modesty, and unaspiringness of Christianity.
1861. Mill, Repr. Govt., iii. 64. Inactivity, unaspiringness, absence of desire, are a more fatal hindrance to improvement than any misdirection of energy.
