ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Endless.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, etc., (ed. 8), 378. When we think we have progress’d far in the un-ending Circles of laborious Science.
1729. Madden, Themistocles, IV. i. 50. Have I not sworn at the conscious Shrines Unending Faith to Xerxes?
1767. Goldsm., Vic. W., xxix. When our bliss shall be unutterable, and still, to crown all, unending.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, II. 73. Countless and unending orbs In mazy motion intermingled.
1875. Clodd, Childhood of Religions, ii. 28. How Frost and Fire had fierce unending battle, and the Ice-Giant his hearthless home where the hardy Norsemen dwelt.
Hence Unendingly adv., Unendingness.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 165. You can no wayes … say, This half is unbeginningly, and that unendingly.
1845. Bailey, Festus (ed. 2), 39. Though a thousand worlds … were elanced Each minute into life unendingly.
1881. Brit. Q. Rev., Oct., 499. The theory of the literal unendingness of even moral perdition.
