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▪ I. unˈyielding, vbl. n.
(un-1 13.)
1848Dickens Dombey xl, Looking upon him with neither yielding nor unyielding, liking nor hatred.
▪ II. unˈyielding, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Of substances (or their structure): Not yielding to force or pressure; unpliant, unbending; stiff, hard. Also const. to.
1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 926 In physicks we see those things that are most stiffe and unyeelding, to be resisted and beaten off with the most soft things. 1736Thomson Liberty v. 87 How shall this thy mighty Kingdom stand? On what unyielding base? 1744Armstrong Art Preserv. Health ii. 537 Hard unyielding unelastic bone. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 405 A soil unyielding to pressure. 1805Southey Madoc ii. x. 105 On the unyielding skin the temper'd blade Bent. 1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 228 A firm and unyielding support to the large head. 1889Mrs. E. Kennard Landing a Prize vii, An unyielding ledge of wood.
2. Of persons, etc.: Not yielding, surrendering, submitting, or giving way; firm, obdurate, obstinate. Also const. to.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 423 Remoue your siege from my unyeelding hart. 1724A. Hill Prol. to Sir T. Overbury 15 He swims, unyielding, against Fortune's Stream. 1736Thomson Liberty iv. 982 His unyielding Son these doctrines drank, With all a Bigot's rage. 1777Potter æschylus, Seven Chiefs 191 Ah! what frentic rage possest Each unyielding, ruthless breast! 182.Bryant Hymn to Death 146 When the earth Received thee, tears were in unyielding eyes And on hard cheeks. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. vii. §19 The unyielding claw of a cold-blooded animal. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 333 Of all people in the wide world,..his cousin was..the most unyielding to argument.
transf.1806Byron Childish Recoll. 6 Unyielding pangs assail the drooping mind. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. i. [An] instance..of what commerce can do against unyielding laws of Nature. 1909Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 5/4 The storm-driven snows had buried and bound the dogs in unyielding frost.
3. Characterized by firmness or obstinacy.
1677Gilpin Demonol. ii. ii. 189 A kind of unnatural fury, which hurries Men with violence into an unyielding stifness. 1736Thomson Liberty v. 370 A zeal unyielding in their country's cause. 1779Mirror No. 8, I..observed an obstinate unyielding silence. a1812Buckminster Serm. (1827) 60 Unyielding virtue is admired by the corrupt, disinterested goodness by the selfish. 1848Buckley Iliad 227 The Greeks were routed, and an unyielding tumult ensued. 1882Besant All Sorts xxi, She..sat bolt upright, the picture of unyielding determination.
Hence unˈyieldingly adv.
[1847Webster.] 1884G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages i. 14 They hold..opinions of their own, and are unyieldingly tenacious of them. 1889Stanley in Daily News 25 Nov. 5/8 There is a virtue..even in striving unyieldingly. |