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unˈdying, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
That does not die; immortal.
a1300Cursor M. 18620 He ras..Bath godd and man als he was ar, Vndeiand [Trin. Vndyinge] nu for euermar. 1608Beaum. & Fl. Four Plays in One iii. Wks. 1912 X. 337 And [I] wish heartily, That firm affection.. May take as deep undying root..Betwixt my Daughter Casta, and your goodness. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 739 Driven down To chains of Darkness, and th' undying Worm. 1816Byron Siege Cor. xv, They fell devoted, but undying. 1887Morris Odyss. xi. 133 Unto the Gods undying of the widespread heavenly home.
absol.1821[see unborn ppl. a. 3]. 1891Morris (title), The Story of the Glittering Plain,..or the Acre of the Undying.
b. transf. Of feelings, etc.
c1765Falconer Occas. Elegy 31 No more..Shall..hopeless Love impart undying pain. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. c, By heavenly feet thy paths are trod,—Undying Love's. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate v, The undying interest ever felt by kindly women in a question of love or marriage.
Hence unˈdyingly adv., unˈdyingness.
a1864Hawthorne Septimius (1872) 33 That strange idea of undyingness which had recently taken possession of him. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 282 He remembered how devotedly,..undyingly, he had once loved..Madeline. |