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1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VI. xxv. (Tollem. MS.). Austyne sayeþ þat slep is a kyndely unfelingenesse [L. insensibilitas] comen to þe body and to þe soule.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 99. When wee … headlong in vnfeelingnesse runne on.
1598. Florio, insensibilita, sencelesnes, vnfeelingnes.
1766. Mrs. Carter, Lett. (1809), III. 285. Surely it implies rather the want of philosophical pride and unfeelingness.
1780. Mirror, No. 101, A warm remonstrance against the inhumanity of parents, the unfeelingness of age, and the injustice of the world.
1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. IV. xvi. (1876), 209. Would it not be coarse unfeelingness to treat such customs with anything but respect.
1895. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept., 654. The same predominance of self … is said to reappear in the … unfeelingness of children.
