ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Showing no deviation; maintaining the same course; steady, constant: a. Of conduct, character, etc.

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1732.  Arbuthnot, in Aitken, Life & Wks. (1892), 138. The undeviating pravity Of his Manners.

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1763.  Goldsm., Misc. Wks. (1836), I. 526. Rational entertainment and undeviating candour.

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1808.  Scott, in Lockhart, I. i. 59. Stern, steady, and undeviating industry.

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1841.  Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), III. viii. 123. Whose kindness is, and has been, constant and undeviating.

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  b.  In other applications.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 37. With such undeviating and even force He severs it away. Ibid., VI. 127. The race Of the undeviating and punctual sun.

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1826.  Art Brewing (ed. 2), 7. Undeviating and powerful causes of destruction or fermentation.

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1874.  Sayce, Compar. Philol., i. 11. Language … obeys undeviating laws of its own.

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