Definition of unmurmuring in English:
unmurmuring
adjective ʌnˈməːm(ə)rɪŋˌənˈmərmərɪŋ
literary Not complaining.
Example sentencesExamples
- He lay unmurmuring for all the tossing of the road over the long miles of the ride.
- A hopeless task; but they continue at it unmurmuring, giving their bodies without stint, as once they gave their labour, to the fields and the sea.
- Not precisely a joyless life nor a life lived in negation of God; only a torpid, base life of mostly unmurmuring content, unfit in the main for such a being as man in such a world as this.
- It is Jesus, the unmurmuring sacrifice, who charges us to, ‘be patient.’
- Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive.
Derivatives
adverb
literary As no other person, She had the same feelings as Christ, unmurmuringly bearing the grief of a mother when She saw Her Son persecuted and suffering.
Example sentencesExamples
- If you always remember the Lord's Passion, you will unmurmuringly forbear everything. - St. Dimitri of Rostov
- The crusaders deployed and made no demonstration as they trudged unmurmuringly over the hills of sand unadorned by a patch of vegetation.
- Thus the good man altogether regained what he unmurmuringly surrendered for conscience’ sake.
- Some in awful agony, some painlessly but all unmurmuringly - I with more luck than I deserved escaped with a few bullets through my helmet and haversack.
Definition of unmurmuring in US English:
unmurmuring
adjectiveˌənˈmərmərɪŋˌənˈmərməriNG
literary Not complaining.
Example sentencesExamples
- He lay unmurmuring for all the tossing of the road over the long miles of the ride.
- It is Jesus, the unmurmuring sacrifice, who charges us to, ‘be patient.’
- Not precisely a joyless life nor a life lived in negation of God; only a torpid, base life of mostly unmurmuring content, unfit in the main for such a being as man in such a world as this.
- A hopeless task; but they continue at it unmurmuring, giving their bodies without stint, as once they gave their labour, to the fields and the sea.
- Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive.