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unreˈmitting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
Never relaxing or slackening; continuing with the same force; incessant: a. Of activity, etc.
1728Thomson Spring 700 Inspiring God! who boundless Spirit all, And unremitting Energy,..agitates the Whole. 1768Boswell Corsica ii. (ed. 2) 79 With unremitting constancy [he] endeavoured to restore the liberties of his country. 1819Busby Hist. Music II. 256 We find in the music a continued and unremitting echo to the sense of the language. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. i. i, [They] lived in the most unremitting hostility towards each other. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos v. 56 Engaged in unremitting toil.
b. Of persons. Also quasi-adv.
1736Thomson Liberty iv. 711 Fleet on fleet Of barbarous pirates unremitting tore The miserable coast. 1796F. Burney Camilla IV. 238 [She] was..unremitting in boasting how well she had..kept them in order. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 359 He..was unremitting in his exertions. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xiii. 420 He was unremitting in argument and entreaty to prevent the taking of their lives.
Hence unreˈmittingness.
1812Shelley Proposals Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 283 Considering the unremittingness of its pressure. 1865M. Arnold Ess. in Crit. vi. (1875) 243 The very intensity and unremittingness of its appeal. |