uninferant
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uninferant (comparative more uninferant, superlative most uninferant)
- Not implying or supporting an inference.
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69:
- We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.
- 1975, David Williams, The Burning Wood, page 146:
- riders horses bison beating on soporific wings through the high dry air their close-ranked bodies blotting out the earth so as to be uninferant of progress except that the hooves beneath them jolted on the solid ground
- 2020, Kirk Curnutt, “The Snopes of Kilimanjaro”, in Studies in the American Short Story, volume 1, number 1:
- From the cot on which he lay uninferant of what might lie ahead in eternal afterlife he watched three pigs poke moist pink slimy snouts obscenely through the warped slats