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  1.  Unassuming, modest. rare1.

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1727.  Pope, Lett. to Swift, 8 March. A free, unimportant, natural, easy manner; diverting others just as we diverted ourselves.

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  2.  Of no importance or moment.

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1750.  Chesterf., Lett., 1 Nov. Ransacking … the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times.

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1798.  S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 465. He was too unimportant to act on [the passions] … of any one around him.

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1841.  Miall, in Nonconf., I. 1. The ends they sought appeared too unimportant to justify the cost.

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1869.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., xi. III. 53. Esegar and Bondig play not unimportant parts in the great struggles of the year.

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  Comb.  1841.  Carlyle, Heroes, iv. (1904), 129. There was not a more entirely unimportant-looking pair of people.

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