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1773.  Melmoth, trans. Cato (1777), I. 252. The same philosophers, who contended for this innoxious and unresentful character of the Deity.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, V. 414. A race of real children;… Not unresentful where self-justified.

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., x. 441. He bore the pang … with proud confidence and unresentful regret.

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  Hence Unresentfully adv., -fulness.

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1862.  Lowell, Biglow P., Ser. II. Poet. Wks. (1912), 320. Good-nature … becomes a positive crime when it leads us to look unresentfully on peculation.

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1899.  G. Tyrrell, in Petre, Life (1912), II. 16. Abounding in sympathy, unresentfulness,… loyalty, fidelity.

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