unquakingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkweɪkɪŋ/, /(ˌ)ʌŋˈkweɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈkweɪkɪŋ/, /ˌəŋˈkweɪkɪŋ/ Not quaking; esp. not trembling with fear or trepidation.
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the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > one showing no sign of fear > [adjective] > not blenching or flinching > not trembling
unquakingeOE
untrembling1570
untremulous1826
unquivering1844
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > trembling or quivering > not
unquivering1782
tremorless1869
unquaking1881
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) iv. 41 Ða ðe ne magon uncwaciende gestondan on emnum felda.
1783 J. Barclay Experience & Example Lord Jesus Christ p. xx So have these men rashly, and..with unquaking consciences, affirmed.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iii. 99 That awful happiness That walks unquaking through the shades of death.
1881 J. Ruskin Bible of Amiens iv. §10 On the unquaking and fruitful earth.
1908 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 5 Mar. Brown..with steady nerve and unquaking hand, dealt out dose after dose of the drug.
1993 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Oct. 19 The diminutive Davies..stood four-square and unquaking and downed the big fellow with the ball on the right side of the try-line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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