un-protestingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unprotesting (comparative more unprotesting, superlative most unprotesting)

1. Not protesting; compliant, docile.
   • 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst^[1]:

     And yet she could find nothing to say in opposition to this; consequently, she had walked away unprotesting, and that act was so contrary to her disposition that it saddened her.

   • 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child^[2]:

     Just as the parental attitude toward the nearest neighbours suggested a kindly but unsentimental tolerance of inferiors, so it became unmistakably tinged with a slightly jealous but unprotesting submission to superiors whenever the lower floors were reached.