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unfretting

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Adjective

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unfretting (comparative more unfretting, superlative most unfretting)

  1. Calm; not fretful.
    • 1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Sermons - Volume 1, page 190:
      How many of you are leading an unfretting, unanxious, a hopeful, cheerful life?
    • 1899, George Washington Cable, Strong Hearts:
      Every hour of day brought some unfretting task or hale pastime.
    • 2022, Alan Le May, The Searchers:
      Scar's line still stood quiet, unfretting.

Verb

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unfretting

  1. present participle and gerund of unfret