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uninferant

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ infer +‎ -ant.

Adjective

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uninferant (comparative more uninferant, superlative most uninferant)

  1. 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