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单词 unwincing
释义

unwincing

English

Etymology

un- + wincing

Adjective

unwincing (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly figuratively) Not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
    • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 41,
      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, Spawn of the North, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 8, 1,
      There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.

Derived terms

  • unwincingly
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