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1753.  Richardson, Grandison (1781), IV. xviii. 141. Wisdom itself … is sometimes thought to sit ungracefully, when it is uncharacteristick, not to the man, but to the times.

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1807.  Opie, in Lect. Paint., iv. (1848), 329. Important events disgraced by mean and uncharacteristic agents.

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1853.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. v. § 26. 139. This cross, though graceful and rich,… is uncharacteristic in one respect.

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1893.  F. Adams, New Egypt, 41. Everything that is characteristic of the Egyptian is uncharacteristic of the Arabian.

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