1786. Burns, Ep. Young Friend, viii. Debar a’ side-pretences, And resolutely keep its laws, Uncaring consequences.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 275. She was so overflowing with health and spirits, so fearless and uncaring.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, xxvii. A few Persian carpets,—thrown about near the divan,—give to the room an appearance of uncaring luxury.
1893. Kipling, Seven Seas, Hymn bef. Action, ii. Deaf ear and soul uncaring, We seek Thy mercy now!
1908. J. O. P., Poems & Sonn., 88.
| Uncaring Fate provoking me full sore, | |
| While Love, defending, hurts me more and more! |
Hence Uncaringly adv.
1868. H. Bushnell, Serm. Living Subj., 208. Put into language outspoken, it says, ‘Plunge thyself uncaringly into evil.’
