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unreˈmitted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not pardoned or cancelled.
1646Hammond Tracts 27 Sin unretracted..doth certainly stand upon the sinners score unremitted.
2. Not allowed to slacken or fall off; maintained at the same pitch or force; continuous.
Very common from c 1760.
1722–7Boyer Dict. Royal ii, Unremitted, (incessant), continuel. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 430 Against the..stubborn hill To urge bold Virtue's unremitted nerve. 1781C. Johnston Hist. J. Juniper I. 13 Her endeavours..had been unremitted. 1820Scott Monast. xi, Assiduity and unremitted attention. 1842H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. I. 26 The fatigues of such years of unremitted toil.
3. Of persons: Unremitting.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 329 Several men of abilities..were unremitted in their endeavours. 1833Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1853) 588 The pastor..ought to be..unremitted in his superintendence of the masters.
Hence unreˈmittedly adv.
1786tr. Beckford's Vathek 22 His wives..unremittedly supplied him with water. 1792in J. Morse Amer. Geog. (1796) I. 510 Through which aperture the water unremittedly drops. 1889Engineer 10 May 408 An advantage which Swansea has been striving for unremittedly, and will gain this autumn. |