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unprotesting

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English

Etymology

From un- + protesting.

Adjective

unprotesting (comparative more unprotesting, superlative most unprotesting)

  1. Not protesting; compliant, docile.
    • 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst:
      And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her.
    • 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child:
      Just as the parental attitude toward the nearest neighbours suggested a kindly but unsentimental tolerance of inferiors, so it became unmistakably tinged with a slightly jealous but unprotesting submission to superiors whenever the lower floors were reached.
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