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unˈdeviating, ppl. a. [un-1 10.] Showing no deviation; maintaining the same course; steady, constant: a. Of conduct, character, etc.
1732Arbuthnot in Aitken Life & Wks. (1892) 138 The undeviating pravity Of his Manners. 1763Goldsm. Misc. Wks. (1836) I. 526 Rational entertainment and undeviating candour. 1808Scott in Lockhart I. i. 59 Stern, steady, and undeviating industry. 1841Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. viii. 123 Whose kindness is, and has been, constant and undeviating. b. In other applications.
1784Cowper Task v. 37 With such undeviating and even force He severs it away. Ibid. vi. 127 The race Of the undeviating and punctual sun. 1826Art Brewing (ed. 2) 7 Undeviating and powerful causes of destruction or fermentation. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. i. 11 Language..obeys undeviating laws of its own. |