a. (UN-1 7.)
(a) 1668. Clarendon, Vind. Tracts (1727), 66. Which refusal, and many others, shew how unsollicitous I have always been in the way of getting.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 453. I could easily conceal this slip of memory,… but I choose to let it stand, agreeably with the character of the Searches, unsolicitous to hide their defects.
1778. Sir J. Reynolds, Disc. (1779), 21. That natural energy of men engaged in real action, unsolicitous of grace.
1817. Bentham, Parl. Reform, Introd. 110. I have not been unsolicitous in my endeavours to collect it.
1884. 19th Cent., Feb., 198. Yet St. Matthew is admitted … to be unsolicitous as to order of time.
1891. Miss Dowie, Girl in Karp., 259. With the fortune that attends the unsolicitous.
(b) 1758. Johnson, Idler, No. 9, ¶ 3. How many unsolicitous hours should I bask away, warmed in bed…, could I … tumble from thence in a moment.
Hence Unsolicitousness.
a. 1683. Owen, Gospel Grounds, Wks. 1851, V. 449. An unsolicitousness about present affairs and future events.
