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1776.  Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, Dissert. 164/1. A most servile uninventive imitation of the sixth Eneid.

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1783.  Blair, Lect., I. 349. Nature … appears, to his uninventive genius, exhausted by those who have gone before him.

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1816.  Q. Rev., XV. 71. One is of a dry and uninventive faculty.

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1855.  Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. iii. VI. 447. The inert and uninventive disciple of the Western philosophy.

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  Hence Uninventively (Webster, 1847), -ness.

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1863.  Sat. Rev., 14 March, 335/2. The very grotesqueness and uninventiveness … which distinguished the illuminations of Tuesday.

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