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unsympathetic(dictionary)

COUNTERSIGN (law) and unsympathetic (iou)


COUNTERSIGN (law)


COUNTERSIGN. To countersign is to sign on the opposite side of an instrument already signed by some Other person or officer, in order to secure its already signed by some Other person or officer, in order to secure its character of a genuine paper; as a bank note is signed by the president and character of a genuine paper; as a bank note is signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier. countersigned by the cashier.

unsympathetic (iou)



unsympathetic adjective. E19.
[from UN-1 + SYMPATHETIC adjective.]
Not sympathetic; not capable of feeling sympathy; not in sympathy with a person or thing.
J. Calder Deep divisions with his family, who were unsympathetic towards his liaison with Fanny. Which? Unsympathetic improvements [to a house] could actually reduce value.
unsympathetically adverb M19.