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undrooping

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ drooping.

Adjective

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undrooping (comparative more undrooping, superlative most undrooping)

  1. Not drooping.
    • 1851, Sam G. Goodrich, Poems[1]:
      A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,-- A day of self-forgetfulness, all given To holy charity, hath perennial bloom That goes, undrooping, up from earth to heaven.
    • 1900, Emerson Hough, The Girl at the Halfway House[2]:
      Her eye was clear, her skin fresh, her shoulders undrooping.