unwincing
English
Etymology
un- + wincing
Adjective
unwincing (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 41,
Derived terms
- unwincingly