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unwearied

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WOTD – 15 November 2019

Etymology

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From un- +‎ wearied.[1]

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unwearied (comparative more unwearied, superlative most unwearied) (dated)

  1. Not wearied, not tired.
    Synonyms: energetic, untired
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:tired (exhausted)
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 551–554:
      Yet not till the Creator from his work / Deſiſting, though unwearied, up returned / Up to the Heav'n of Heav'ns his high abode, / Thence to behold this new created World […]
    • 1777, [John Lind], “Section III. Conduct of Lord Pigot in His Disputes with the Nabob and with the Members of the Council.”, in Defence of Lord Pigot, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 191:
      Diſappointed in this endeavour, undiſguſted by the petulance of oppoſition, unwearied by the ſtubbornneſs of faction, We have ſeen Him [George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot] labour to ſecure, at leaſt, the political advantages held forth by the reſtoration of the Rajah [Thuljaji, the Rajah of Tanjore].
    • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume III, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 225–226:
      The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation;— […]
    • 1880, “Avidūre Nidāna”, in T[homas] W[illiam] Rhys Davids, transl., edited by V[iggo] Fausböll, Buddhist Birth Stories; or, Jātaka Tales. The Oldest Collection of Folk-lore Extant: Being the Jātakatthavaṇṇanā, […] (Trübner’s Oriental Series), volume I (Translation), London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 65:
      From the moment of the incarnation, thus brought about, of the future Buddha, four angels, with swords in their hands, stood guard over the Bodisat and his mother, to shield them from all harm. Pure in thought, having reached the highest aim and the highest honour, the mother was happy and unwearied; and she saw the child within her as plainly as one could see a thread passed through a transparent gem.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Wayfarers All”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 187:
      But the constant chorus of the orchards and hedges had shrunk to a casual evensong from a few yet unwearied performers; the robin was beginning to assert himself once more; and there was a feeling in the air of change and departure.
    • 1917 November, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum [Dublin]: The Cuala Press, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 1:
      Unwearied still, lover by lover, / They paddle in the cold, / Companionable streams or climb the air; […]
    • 1933, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “The Northern Dragon”, in The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Sons, →OCLC; republished Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014, →ISBN, book 10 (The Regress), page 225:
      He was standing unwearied in a lonely place among rocks with a dead reptile at his feet. He remembered that he had killed it. And the time before he had killed it seemed very long ago.
  2. Never tiring; tireless.
    Synonyms: indefatigable, inexhaustible, unflagging, untiring, unwearying
  3. Not stopping; persistent, relentless.
    Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, unremitting
    • 1640 December 9, John Gauden, The Love of Trvth and Peace. A Sermon Preached before the Honovrable Hovse of Commons Assembled in Parliament. […], London: Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crooke […], published 1641, →OCLC, page 22:
      Love is the weight and motor of the ſoule, the Spring that ſets all the wheeles on worke. It is vehement, active, induſtrious, unwearied, invincible affection; if rightly placed on worthy objects, it workes wonders.
    • 1792, “The History of the Restoration of Platonic Theology. By the Latter Platonists.”, in Proclus, translated by [Thomas Taylor], The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus, on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. […] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume II, London: Printed for the author; and sold by T[homas] Payne and Son;  […], →OCLC, section I, page 254:
      Beſides every thing there is endued with an untamed and unwearied power. […] And beholding itſelf infinite, and the objects of its perception, it follows its own nature as its guide in unwearied contemplation.
    • 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Sounds”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 130:
      Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

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  1. ^ “unwearied, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926; “unwearied, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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