[UN-1 12.] Lack of apprehension.
1661. Baxter, Mor. Prognost. (1680), I. § 4. If … a Natural Unapprehensiveness Blocks up the Way, even Time and Labour will never … bring any, to any great Eminency of Understanding.
1671. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xix. 127. By reason of the Unapprehensiveness which God puts into us.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. ii. 6. Unthinking creatures have some comfort in the shortness of their views; in their unapprehensiveness.
c. 1833. Mrs. Sherwood, Life, xxxi. (1854), 567. That unaccountable unapprehensiveness which so often foreruns any severe affliction.
