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1744. Thomson, Spring, 390. The bleeding Breast Of the weak, helpless, uncomplaining Wretch.
1816. Shelley, Sunset, 48. Whether the dead are the uncomplaining things they seem.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, iii. The child was so gentle, so quiet, and uncomplaining.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, 295. The uncomplaining submission of Iphigeneia and Polyxena.
Hence Uncomplainingly adv.; -ness.
[1847. Webster.]
1854. Mary C. Clarke, The Iron Cousin, li. 466. But this is complaining, cowardly kind of talk; not fit for one whos all courage and uncomplainingness herself.
1861. Whyte-Melville, Good for Nothing, I. 63. Ada bore with it all, sadly, but uncomplainingly.
1876. Smiles, Sc. Natur., xiii. (ed. 4), 252. Edwards perseverance, self-denial, and uncomplainingness.