单词 | unresting |
释义 | † unrestingn. Obsolete. Disturbance, disruption. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > action or quality of upsetting sturbing?c1225 sturblingc1330 troublingc1340 perturbationa1382 oversettinga1398 stroublinga1400 perturbancec1425 unresting?c1450 inquieting1527 disquieting1535 disquietment1606 discomfita1616 rufflement1806 discomfiture1885 upsettingness1922 ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 385 Suche as gretly rowte or make any unrestful noyse in ther sleppe..schal be purueyd a nother place, wher they may slepe with oute unrestyng of other. 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 9 Well; gone he is out of this Man; and we must therein consider..1. His vnroosting. 2. His vnresting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020). unrestingadj. Not resting; never at rest; constantly moving or active; ceaseless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > without rest unresting1582 easeless1632 unreposed1769 unreposing1772 the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action) ithanda1300 continualc1340 unstintingc1380 perpetuala1382 unfailinga1382 unceasing1382 everlastinga1398 restless?a1439 continuedc1440 running1492 incessant1532 uncessant1548 incessable1552 universal1561 never-ceasing1567 still1570 unpausing1585 ceaseless1590 uncessable1596 indesinent1601 uninterrupted1602 unceasable1604 Sabbathless1605 unceased1605 unintermissive1610 unstaying1616 constant1653 jugial1654 uninterrupted1657 stopless1660 uncheque1671 chronical1672 unarrested1733 well-sustained1743 uninterrupt1776 unsuspended1792 sustained1796 pauseless1820 unhalting1832 persistent1842 unresting1856 unbreaking1870 non-stop1915 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 80 The poore vnresting Dido could catch no such happye Season, too be quiet. 1604 A. Scoloker Daiphantus sig. F4 The wandring soule Seeking for rest in his vnresting spirit. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iv. iv. 63 in Five New Playes (1659) What is she? I am fear-struck. Tis some unresting shaddow. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. lxxxi But ay the ruthless driver goads them on,..Ne ever find they rest from their unresting fone. 1753 R. Glover Boadicia i. iv. 7 Victorious sister, may th'unresting labour Of fortune weave new honours to adorn thee. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxxiii. 49 Life-abhorring gloom Wrote on his faded brow curst Cain's unresting doom. 1832 T. Carlyle in Athenæum 1 July 24 Work, then, even as he [sc. Goethe] has done, and does—‘Like a star unhasting, yet unresting’. 1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock x. 168 Those ballads, which they sing with such unresting diligence. 1892 N.Y. Times 19 Feb. 10/1 The deep sonorous roll of the unresting breakers that hurl themselves ceaselessly upon the broad curving shore. 1933 D. B. Macdonald Hebrew Literary Genius xiv. 202 To Ecclesiastes this toiling, unresting universe suggested an infinite weariness in perpetual transition and recurrence. 1949 W. Havighurst Signature of Time 32 Time had moved over the island—carrying away the life of his people, leaving the patient rocks and the unresting water. 1975 Guardian 30 Aug. 18/6 He is an unresting competitor. 2011 R. R. Smith Driving with Plato vii. 78 To quell the sexual agitation.., to satisfy it and so bring some respite from the unresting provocations. Derivatives unˈrestingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > in a continuous manner or without stopping fastlyOE anonOE everOE everylikec1225 continuallyc1305 atreet1340 unceasinglyc1340 perpetuallyc1385 incessably1398 desselya1400 ithandlya1400 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 contunely1447 all alongc1450 dessantlyc1460 incessantly1481 still opece1488 uncessantlya1500 continuinglya1513 in ane1513 away1526 incessant1558 restlessly1567 square1570 stintless1598 ceaselessly?1606 residently1609 unrestingly1621 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 constantly1682 hand to fist1706 forever1753 unintermittingly1784 round the clock1816 continuously1826 unpausingly1831 sustainedly1842 pauselessly1845 remorselessly1845 around the clock1872 play-by-play1889 ball-by-ball1906 non-stop1920 solidly1937 the world > action or operation > continuing > [adverb] > without resting unrestingly1621 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania i. 68 His mind as vnrestingly running on Vrania, as a hurt bird, that neuer leaues flying till he falls downe. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x. 23/2 The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination. 1893 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1891–2 27 429 He was unrestingly active in the introduction of methods that had been elsewhere found serviceable. 1931 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Jan. 110/1 He..travelled three days unrestingly and uncomfortably, but economically. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 23 Jan. (Culture section) 44 It is characteristic of the man that, even in the Tower, he groped unrestingly for advancement. unˈrestingness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun] > quality of being unresting inquiescentialness1659 unrestingness1839 1839 T. De Quincey Dinner in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 823 The German imagination has been most struck with the duration of the man's life..the English by the unrestingness..his incapacity of repose. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iv. 325 The sublimest examples of unrestingness are afforded by the movements of the heavenly bodies, and of the earth itself. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 15 Oct. (Features section) 13 Graham's art..is a beautiful encapsulation of rest and unrestingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?c1450adj.1582 |
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