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▪ I. unˈresting, vbl. n. ? Obs.
[f. unrest v., or un-2 8.]
The depriving of rest.
14..[see unrestful a. 3]. 1615T. Adams Blacke Devill 9 Well; gone he is out of this Man; and we must therein consider..1. His vnroosting. 2. His vnresting. [Hence in1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 68.]
▪ II. unˈresting, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 114 The poore vnresting Dido could catch no such happye Season too be quiet. 1604A. Scoloker Daiphantus F 4 The wandring soule Seeking for rest in his vnresting spirit. a1652Brome Eng. Moor iv. iv, What is she? I am fear-struck Tis some unresting shadow. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. lxxxi, But ay the ruthless driver goads them on,..Ne ever find they rest from their unresting fone. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxxxiii, Life-abhorring gloom Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain's unresting doom. 1856H. Dixon Post & Paddock x. 168 Those ballads, which they sing with such un⁓resting diligence. 1870M. D. Conway Earthw. Pilgr. xxi. 256 This unresting life of the enquiring soul.
Hence unˈrestingly adv.; unˈrestingness.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our imagination. 1839De Quincey Roman Meals Wks. (1854) III. 269 note, The German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man's life,..the English, by the unrestingness.., his incapacity of repose. |