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1744.  Thomson, Spring, 390. The bleeding Breast Of the weak, helpless, uncomplaining Wretch.

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1816.  Shelley, Sunset, 48. Whether the dead … are the uncomplaining things they seem.

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey, iii. The child … was so gentle, so quiet, and uncomplaining.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, 295. The uncomplaining submission of Iphigeneia and Polyxena.

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  Hence Uncomplainingly adv.; -ness.

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[1847.  Webster.]

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1854.  Mary C. Clarke, The Iron Cousin, li. 466. But this is complaining, cowardly kind of talk; not fit for one who’s all courage and uncomplainingness herself.

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1861.  Whyte-Melville, Good for Nothing, I. 63. Ada bore with it all, sadly, but uncomplainingly.

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1876.  Smiles, Sc. Natur., xiii. (ed. 4), 252. Edward’s perseverance, self-denial, and uncomplainingness.

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