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unaˈvailing, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1670Dryden Conq. Granada iii. i, I..would your unavailing Valour call, From aiding those whom Heav'n has doom'd to fall. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 286 In hope that..I might bring him to a just Sense of his Folly, and cure a Passion so unavailing. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. l. V. 216 Their mummies were embalmed..to preserve the ancient mansion of the soul, during a period of three thousand years. But the attempt is partial and unavailing. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 117 The heavy sea which was then running, rendered their efforts unavailing. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lv, The inventiveness of cruelty which Tigellinus and Nero studied..amid the faint, unavailing remonstrances of Poppæa.
Hence unaˈvailingly adv.
1748Richardson Clarissa IV. 170 Must..those arms..be used to repel brutal force; all their strength, unavailingly perhaps, exerted to repel it? 1810Lee Odes Pindar vii. 83 Approaching age serene I view, Nor unavailingly deplore The time, when I shall be no more. 1885Law Rep. 10 P.D. 99 Every effort was unavailingly made to avoid the collision. |