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unˈmoving, ppl. a. [un-1 10.] 1. Not moving; devoid of motion.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. xii. 1178 Þan gert he stand Baith sone and mone, still vnmovand As wer þe space all of a day. 1594Selimus 1442 All those moving and un⁓moving eyes. 1598Florio, Stella fissa, a fixed, vnmouing starre. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xiv. ix. 510 The eternall beatitude shall haue both ioye and loue,..firme, and vnmoouing. 1705Cheyne Philos. Princ. i. (1715) 186 Without this Impulse, they had continued unactive, un⁓moving Heaps of Matter. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 10 Calmness seems thron'd on yon unmoving cloud. a1834Coleridge Shaks. Notes (1849) 35 Succession of time and unmoving eternity. 1900Scribner's Mag. Sept. 289 Everywhere were vast ghostly figures unmoving in the moonlight. 2. Unaffecting; stirring no feeling.
1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 54 How flat and insipid, how dead and unmoving must all Discourse of it be to him! 1971S. Hill Strange Meeting 188 We have had a pep talk from the Brigadier, and last week, a pep letter came round to all officers and N.C.O.'s—entirely unmoving. |