a. (UN-1 7.)
1722. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl., I. Pref. p. ii. The most … impudent and unargumentative weekly Paper the Town was ever infested with.
1837. G. S. Faber, Prim. Doctr. Justif., v. 235. The doctrine would not have been a whit the worse, had the … unargumentative curses been omitted.
1870. J. H. Newman, Gram. Assent, I. v. 119. The inward voice of that solemn Monitor, personal, peremptory, unargumentative.
Hence Unargumentatively adv.
1840. G. S. Faber, Prim. Doctr. Regen., 66. Just as if the writers unargumentatively thought, that no one … could ever doubt its propriety.
