a. (UN-1 7.)

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1747.  [see UNORNAMENTAL a.].

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1782.  V. Knox, Ess., iii. (1819), I. 18. They induce idleness … not to neglect the reality as attainable only by a painful and unostentatious application.

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1825.  Scott, Betrothed, xi. Hugo de Lacy was, on most occasions, plain and unostentatious.

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1874.  Green, Short Hist., vii. § 1. His personal habits were simple and unostentatious.

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  Hence Unostentatiousness, (Worc., 1846, citing Allen.)

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