Meanings
adjectivenoncomprehending (not comparable)
- not comparableuncomprehending
He marries Priscilla; but her noncomprehending adoration adds to his suffering and self-deprecation rather than alleviating it […]
1990, Catherine H Zuckert, Natural right and the American imagination: political philosophy in novel form1 more example
The stratagem of resorting to stealthiness in a non-comprehending, hostile environment is surely not peculiar to the homosexual sensibility, but it is an aspect of that sensibility.
1975 December 20, Rudy Kikel, “The Closed Closet Policy and the Poetry of Paul Monette”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 9
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