unwincing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unwincing (not comparable)
- (chiefly figuratively) Not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 41, in North and South[1]:
- So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.
- 1932, Barrett Willoughby, “8, 1”, in Spawn of the North[2], New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
- There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.