a. (UN-1 7.)
Frequent from c. 1880; hence also, in recent use, unemotionalism, unemotionalness.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., lxii. Lapidoth … thought of all that this inscription signified with an unemotional memory.
1887. Miss Braddon, Like & Unlike, x. He was the most unemotional young man Colonel Deverill had ever encountered.
1915. Oliver Onions, In Accordance with the Evidence, II. iv. 161. I soon saw that only by means of a studied unemotionalness should I be able for long to head her off from the things she sought.
1922. L. Martindale, The Woman Doctor, Pref. 15. Her unexpected unemotionalism in those important crises in which definite and decided action has to be taken,… [a quality] marked … in all the more distinguished and eminent women of the profession.
Hence Unemotionally adv.
1884. Athenæum, 12 Jan., 52/1. The aged cynic, whose ungrateful task it is to regard them unemotionally.
1894. Du Maurier, Trilby, II. 202. He unemotionally, dispassionately, wished himself dead.
