a. (UN-1 7.)
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., lvii. He would sit and talk to me … in the old unassertive protecting way.
1882. Ch. Q. Rev., April, 140. Unanxious and unassertive, where certainty fails it.
a. (UN-1 7.)
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., lvii. He would sit and talk to me … in the old unassertive protecting way.
1882. Ch. Q. Rev., April, 140. Unanxious and unassertive, where certainty fails it.
