ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1736. A. Hill, Zara, I. i. 9. Monarchs, Like the Sun, Shine but in vain, unwarming, if unseen.
1794. Burns, Lament, 6. With woe I nightly vigils keep, Beneath thy wan unwarming beam.
1800. Campbell, Beech Trees Petition, 4. Though bush or floweret never grow My dark unwarming shade below.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 277.
| And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, | |
| Each in the pale unwarming light of hope | |
| Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by. |
1866. Whittier, Snow-Bound, 152. For such a world and such a night Most fitting that unwarming light.