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  1.  Not moving; devoid of motion.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., II. xii. 1178. Þan gert he stand Baith sone and mone, still vnmovand As wer þe space all of a day.

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1594.  Selimus, 1442. All those moving and unmoving eyes.

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1598.  Florio, Stella fissa, a fixed, vnmouing starre.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XIV. ix. 510. The eternall beatitude shall haue both ioye and loue,… firme, and vnmoouing.

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1705.  Cheyne, Philos. Princ., I. (1715), 186. Without this Impulse, they had continued unactive, unmoving Heaps of Matter.

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1804.  J. Grahame, Sabbath, 10. Calmness seems thron’d on yon unmoving cloud.

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a. 1834.  Coleridge, Shaks. Notes (1849), 35. Succession of time and unmoving eternity.

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1900.  Scribner’s Mag., Sept., 289. Everywhere were vast ghostly figures unmoving in the moonlight.

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  2.  Unaffecting; stirring no feeling. rare–1.

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1698.  Norris, Pract. Disc., IV. 54. How flat and insipid, how dead and unmoving must all Discourse of it be to him!

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