1589. Nashe, Pref., in Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 8. Which being the effect of an vndescerning iudgement, makes drosse as valuable as gold.
1643–5. Milton, Divorce, II. xii. That power the undiscerning Canonist hath improperly usurpt.
1673. Lady’s Calling, I. ii. § 5. These sophisticators of divinity desire the most undiscerning auditors.
1711. Pope, Temple of Fame, 297. Thus … fickle Fortune…, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 164, ¶ 6. He is on one side censured by undiscerning malice,… and idolized on the other by ignorant admiration.
1812. Crabbe, Tales, x. 132. All are appropriate—bog, and marsh, and fen, Are only poor to undiscerning men.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. II. 240. Intemperate and undiscerning as was his zeal for the Declaration.
Hence Undiscerningly adv.
1707. W. Caroll, Let. Dr. Prat, 10. Not upon the 10th Chap. of that Essay, as this Gentleman very undiscerningly has it.
