unslackeningadj.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action) > unremitting
dreichc1400
unrespited1593
unslacked1593
unremitteda1630
unrelented1651
unremitting1668
unflagging1715
unrelaxing1715
unbating1744
unslackening1768
unabatinga1774
unremittent1776
unreceding1810
irremissive1817
remitless1818
unrelaxed1825
unslackened1870
bateless1886
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 396 To turn his steps into the way that..unslackning prudence would have led.
1793 J. Beresford in W. Roberts Looker-on No. 82. 655 After an unslackening course of..fasting, mortification, and watchfulness.
1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 17 Faster each hour, on Time's unslackening gale, The dreaming world drives on.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. xi. §1 There is no obstacle to an increase of production..of unslackening rapidity.
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