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nonadoring en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + adoring.

Meanings

1. Not adoring; unadoring.
   • Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack. 2003, Bric Blastard Had It All, page 36:
   • The more sensitive and easily hurt we are to nonadoring responses, the more it signals a possession state by this grandiose organization. 2003, Robert L. Moore, Max J. Havlick, Facing the Dragon, page 146:
   • All nonconfessing, nonadoring speech is sinful because it does not return itself to its giver. 2010, Paul J. Griffiths, Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity, page 90:

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