† unaffrontiveadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Unresisting.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [adjective]
unresisting1586
resistless1591
unaffrontive1720
unrepulsing1748
unstruggling1822
unrepugnant1823
unresistant1832
1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxxi. 801 Such an unaffrontive Patience, and Resigned Disposition, is ever acceptable to God.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adj.1720- etc a etc hand
- etc a feel for
- etc a fire under
- etc a game
- etc a good hand
- etc a great miss of
- etc a hard bargain
- etc a heavy miss of
- etc a line in the sand
- etc a little miss of
- etc a living
- etc a lock on
- etc a lock on something
- etc a maddie
- etc a man when he is down
- etc a mastery
- etc a maying
- etc a mile away
- etc a mile off
- etc a mint
- etc a mint of money
- etc a mischief——?
- etc a miss of
- etc a moody
- etc a mort