ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)

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  Also, in recent use (1920), unsinkingly.

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1705.  Addison, Italy, 191. All the dewy Strand Lyes cover’d with a smooth, unsinking Sand.

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1816.  J. Wilson, City of Plague, I. iii. 38. Let me walk the waves of this wild world Through faith unsinking.

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1821.  Byron, Cain, III. i. 529. Oh! thou … whose unsinking Blood darkens earth and heaven!

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1823.  Mrs. Hemans, Siege Valencia, ii. 429. Enough of woe … For man to bear, unsinking.

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1920.  Max Beerbohm, And Even Now, 58. It had been impossible that the first wild ardour of spirit should abide unsinkingly in him [Swinburne].

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