unconsumingadj.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adjective] > not pining away (of the heart)
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless > specific
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unenvenomed1831
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxv. sig. M8v Though pleasure merries the Sences for a while: yet horror after vultures the vnconsuming heart.
1718 Entertainer No. 15. 97 No sooner shall the enjoyment be over, when Horrour will..act the Promethean Vulture upon the unconsuming Conscience.]
1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 188 God of the unconsuming fire, On Horeb seen of old.
1851 Trench Sonn. in Poems (1865) 92 It straightway kindled then, and was afire, And with the unconsuming radiance blended.
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