unrefundingadj.
/ˌʌnriːˈfʌndɪŋ/, /ˌʌnrᵻˈfʌndɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːfʌndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈfəndɪŋ/, /ˌənriˈfəndɪŋ/ Now rare.
1. Not giving a refund or return.
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1697 J. Drake in J. Drake Ess. Def. Female Sex (ed. 3) To Madam sig. B5v They are as unrefunding as a cast Mistress, and as unacknowledging as a Dutch Tradesman.
1816 J. Ogilvie Philos. Ess. ii. 119 [A nobleman] wasting his own, and the nations' patrimony, in the vortical and unrefunding gulf of unproductive expense.
1898 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 24 Jan. 4/1 They continued to invest the allowance of money sent to keep them from starving in this unrefunding swindle.
1912 Indianapolis Star 21 Feb. 6/2 He will revere the courts if they hand down decisions that mean to him the spirit of equality and not the letter of baffling and unrefunding law.
2. poetic. Of a grave, tomb, etc.: not relinquishing its contents.
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the mind > possession > retaining > [adjective] > keeping what is due to or desired by another > not giving back
unrestoring1617
unrefunding1704
1704 Poem to Dutchess of Marlborough 3 Mighty Numbers rais'd the Grecian Braves From the dark Maw of Time, and unrefunding Graves.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 41 When Horror Universal shall descend..On that enormous, unrefunding Tomb, How just this Verse?
1828 Haverhill Gaz. 19 Jan. 1/1 'Tis over now—time's wreck-strewn wave, Hath clos'd upon a year Its deep and unrefunding grave, Whence nought can reappear.
1914 Indianapolis Star 19 Feb. 8/2 The Whig party, by clinging to economic controversy and repelling the humanitarian movement..had dug its own unrefunding tomb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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