ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
Also unenterprisingly adv. (Webster, 1847).
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., II. ¶ 11. A maxim under which the ignorant and unenterprising shelter themselves in every age.
1791. Burke, Th. French Aff., Wks. VII. 29. Under a lazy and unenterprising prince.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. IV. 235. He would not again be told that he was a timid and unenterprising commander.
1903. Alice MacGowan, The Last Word, 64–5. When he turns out perfidious (as he frequently does) and tears my heart into little agonised tatters, would I foolishly seek to win him back, or unenterprisingly strive to escape the cruel anguish—merely because it is anguish?
