unresentingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻˈzɛntɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈzɛn(t)ɪŋ/ = unresentful adj.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > [adjective] > inclined to forgive
forgivefulc1000
unresenting1686
unresentful1758
understanding1913
1686 H. Higden Mod. Ess. 13th Satyr Juvenal 24 Can there be Gods above, and bear Audacious Perjury to hear? So unresenting, tame, and base, T' endure Affronts done to their Face.
1716 J. Collier tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Panegyrick upon Maccabees 57 'Twas this [patience] which made..Stephen unresenting when ston'd ‘to death’.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xii. 84 But to hurt a brother of such gentle manners,—..so unresenting;—'tis base.
1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 358 To remain in nominal Peace and unresenting Passiveness with an insolent neighbour.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 61 Godfrey..left the room, followed humbly by the unresenting Snuff.
1907 R. A. Bray Town Child ii. iv. 291 The long hours of strenuous effort, the daily privations,..all alike borne with a dumb and unresenting patience.
1997 M. Edmundson Nightmare on Main St. (1999) 75 At the core of Forrest Gump is the sugary fiction that dull virtue in tandem with humble, unresenting poverty is well rewarded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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