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English
Etymology
From un- + pressingly.
Adverb
unpressingly (comparative more unpressingly, superlative most unpressingly)
- (rare) Not pressingly.
1843, J Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, , 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, ; Leipsic: F A Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164:Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: / They vault with sylph-like ease and grace, / From dragons-backs, to th’ hippocampi race: / And are so light of frame, that when they roam, / They ride unpressingly the billows’ foam!
1928 November 10, Lionel Trilling, “Virginia Woolf’s Propaganda for Grace and Wit”, in New York Evening Post; quoted in Harvey Teres, “Lionel Trilling as Public Intellectual”, in The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader (The New Public Scholarship), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2011, published 2014, →ISBN, part 1 (The Academy and the Public), page 79:It has wit and pleasant malice, but they are not sudden and apart from it, like set jewels, but are inherent in it, and do their work swiftly, casually, and unpressingly.
1974, Calvin Bedient, “Philip Larkin”, in Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W. S. Graham, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 77:It possesses also a humble appeal of personality, a tone as unpressingly intimate as the touch of a hand on one’s arm.