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never-failing, a.
[never 7 b.]
Unfailing.
1622Fletcher Sea-Voy. iii. i, The never-failing purchase Of lordships and of honours! 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 92 The never-failing hen has unhappily forsaken her wonted nest. 1709Steele Tatler No. 47 ⁋3 A never-failing Medicine for the Spleen. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 11 The never-failing brook, the busy mill. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales x, Wrapt in profound reveries on this never-failing theme. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 27 A never-failing source of supply to the shallow wells.
Hence never-failingly adv.
1709Brit. Apollo No. 44. 2/2 A Cure, Speedy,..Never⁓failingly sure. |