uninnovating

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uninnovating (not comparable)

That does not innovate.
- 1879, John Webb, Memorials of the Civil War Between King Charles I. and the Parliament of England as it affected Herefordshire and adjacent counties, page 233:
  He dismissed the uninnovating clergy from their city livings, and brought in his own partisans, who should instruct their hearers what was now the right way of thinking and acting in Bristol to keep pace with the times; […]
- 1889, Lee Meriwether, The Tramp at Home, page 62:
  The French and Spanish originally settled the country, and from those Latin peoples were received the first characteristics which an uninnovating spirit and a warm climate have tended to preserve, with comparatively little change […]