unapprehensive

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He was aware that the fort was not sufficiently guarded by its present inmates, and that, unapprehensive of impending danger, they were liable to be taken entirely by surprise.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He never jarred with what was immediately around him, and his nature was too joyous, too unapprehensive, for the hidden and the distant to grasp him in the shape of a dread.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Come, friend Flammock," said the Welshman, "frame not thyself more unapprehensive than nature hath formed thee.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

He was not unapprehensive of the influence of time and absence in curing the most vehement passion, but to this expedient the lady could not be reconciled.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

I have often sat between two women, but never with such calm, unreserved, unapprehensive comfortableness as I experienced between Mrs Colclough and Mrs Brindley.

From The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold