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unarriving en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English arriving English unarriving From un- + arriving.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That does not arrive.
    • The dissolution of the authority of the past and the present in favour of an endlessly anticipated, but unarriving futurity links prediction to redundancy in the novel. 2008, Steven Connor, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present, page 40: