adv. [UN-1 11; cf. prec.]

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  1.  Without pretence; genuinely.

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1828.  Moore, in Mem., V. 264. It is impossible for a royal personage to be more naturally and unpretendingly unaffected.

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  2.  Without pretension; unassumingly.

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1855.  Cdl. Wiseman, Fabiola, 359. Miriam would follow up, humbly and unpretendingly,… the instructions given by the holy Dionysius.

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1859.  W. Collins, Q. of Hearts, I. iv. 99. These narratives were written plainly and unpretendingly.

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