a. (UN-1 10.)
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1792), III. 9. The seasonable precaution of breaking the matter to our father by unalarming degrees.
1803. Ann. Rev., I. 364. A disposition to make … slight unalarming reforms.
1868. Miss Braddon, Dead Sea Fr., III. iv. 6. Her illness was of a very slight and unalarming character.
