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unˈcompromising, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
Not willing or seeking to compromise; unyielding, unbending; stiff, stubborn: a. Of persons.
1828Lytton Pelham II. i, We must pursue the same course—stern and uncompromising. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 541 The most honest, fearless, and uncompromising republican of his time. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage vi, Among uncompromising patriots as among poor foreigners.
b. Of feelings, attitudes of mind, etc.
1830Forrester III. 89 [He was] aroused..to a full sense of the danger he had incurred by his uncompromising hostility. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay vii, Whose uncompromising sincerity might convince the hardest skeptic of its reality.
c. fig. Of things.
1875M. A. Barker Year's Housekeeping S. Africa i. (1877) 7 The ‘Devil's Peak’ is uncompromising enough for any one's taste. 1889J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 363 A square house ‘with no nonsense about it’,..an uncompromising square house.
Hence unˈcompromisingly adv.; -ness.
1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 527 The military tribunals..Mr. Abercromby..steadily and *uncompromisingly opposed. 1837Pusey Let. in Liddon Life (1894) I. 388 However uncompromisingly they maintain the maxim. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. iv, The dressmaker sent home three new frocks, all uncompromisingly ugly.
1865Pusey Eiren. 284 The *uncompromisingness of the Church of England in maintaining Catholic truth. 1894Fortn. Rev. May 690 Even her uncompromisingness is preferable to the ostentatious abandonment of principles. |