a. (UN-1 7.)
1796. Gisborne, Walks Forest (ed. 2), vi. 121. Does Truth, disclosed from heaven,… her sacred shafts behold Bound unimpressive from the callous heart?
1828. P. Cunningham, N. S. Wales (ed. 3), II. 314. The slovenly and unimpressive manner in which the witness is sworn.
1880. C. Wicksteed, in S. Brooke’s Life & Lett. (1917), I. 330. Look at the men who pass into the shades of our theology—impassive, unimpressive shades!
Hence Unimpressively (Webster, 1847), -ness.
1827. Hare, Guesses, Ser. I. 107. The accuracy and unimpressiveness of Algebraic characters.
1860. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), II. 221. The variety is in some degree a cause of comparative unimpressiveness.
