unfighting
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unfighting (not comparable)
- That does not fight.
- 1860, James Amphlett, The Newspaper Press, in Part of the Last Century..., page 104:
- As Ministers, you're hooted, hiss'd, / His Majesty's great undismiss'd: / All by unfighting Dan you're lick'd, / The yet unoust, the great unkick'd; […]
- 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, page 34:
- Blind to his own interests, the foolish Duryodhana asked for the troops; while Arjuna solicited Krishna as an unfighting counsellor.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]unfighting
- present participle and gerund of unfight