a. [UN-1 7 b.] Incapable of being or becoming wearied or tired; indefatigable, unremitting.
App. disused in the 18th cent., and reintroduced in the 19th, when it came into common use.
a. Of persons or things.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 47. An enemie that is … in diligence and celeritie vnweriable.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., I. iv. § 1. Desire to resemble him in goodnes maketh them vnweariable.
1608. Bp. Hall, Char. Virtues & V., II. (1614), 259. If the others eare were as vnweariable as his tongue. Ibid. (1626), Contemp., O. T., XXI. vi. He is vnweariable with our requests.
1694. in R. H. Story, W. Carstares (1874), 234. A great fervency in expression, and unweariable lungs, are mistaken by the poor ignorant for zeal and piety.
[1775. Ash.]
1810. Southey, Kehama, XVI. xix. That unweariable foe, With will relentless follows still.
1854. Thoreau, Walden (1863), 253. So long-winded was he and so unweariable.
1899. Mackail, W. Morris, II. 217. Through all that period, his sister was his … unweariable nurse.
b. Of qualities, conditions, or actions.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxv. 5. He hung uppon God with unweeriable constancie.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., Pref. 17. An vnweariable desire of receyuing instruction.
1627. J. Carter, Plain Expos., 5. It requireth vnweariable labour and paines all our life long.
1651. Gataker, in Fuller, Abel Rediv. (1867), I. 242. An insatiable ardour and unweariable endeavour of continual … hearing or reading.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, VII. 198. Resolved to wage unweariable war With my almighty Tyrant.
a. 1842. Arnold, Hist. Rome (1845), III. 141. The Numidians … chased them with unweariable speed.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, II. 260. Their unweariable good nature.
Hence Unweariableness.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Acts vi. 5. Famous for their unweariableness in God’s work.
1652. W. Brough, Sacr. Princ., 64. Why such unweariablnesse to have my will?
