ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1570. Levins, Manip., 137. Vnwauering, immotus.
1667. H. More, Disc. Faith (1713), 579. Forasmuch as Faith … is nothing but an unwavering assent to some Doctrine [etc.].
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. II. i. 253. To shew how unwavering she continued in her formerly declared purpose.
1739. C. & J. Wesley, Hymns, 12. With Steps unwav’ring, undismay’d Give me in all thy Paths to tread.
1801. Coleridge, Triumph Loyalty, I. 330. All objects there will teach me Unwavering Love.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. 409. An unwavering pursuit of a single policy.
1884. A. R. Pennington, Wiclif, III. 120. He was as unwavering in his tone as in his reply to the ‘motley doctor.’
Hence Unwaveringly adv.
1830. Coleridge, Constit. Ch. & State, 1. The mark, to which my convictions and wishes have … unwaveringly pointed.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 139. When the Queen … Found her son’s will unwaveringly one, She answer’d craftily.
