[UN-1 12.] Absence of pretension; unassumingness.
1727. Boyer, Dict. Royal, II. Unpretendingness, modestie.
1768. Woman of Honor, III. 254. There was in her … so sweet an unpretendingness … as astonished and captivated me.
1832. S. Austin, trans. Tour Germ. Prince, III. xi. 315. She is goodness, cordiality, and unpretendingness itself.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xvii. 427. One of the most agreeable [scenes] in the whole play, by reason of its familiar domestic unpretendingness.
