unwithdrawing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + withdrawing.
Adjective
[edit]unwithdrawing (not comparable)
- That does not withdraw.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
- 1831, Henry Cogswell Knight, Lectures and Sermons, volume 2, page 104:
- On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]