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unasking en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From un- + asking.

Meanings

  1. Not making demands.
    • I know now there should have been no higher beatitude than to live in the presence of an unselfish, unasking, vital love. 1901, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
    • Only the great, tender soul was visible to her; the unasking, the kind spirit. 1914, Harriet T. Comstock, The Place Beyond the Winds:

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most unasking Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unasking Degree=Cmp lexicographic

unasking en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From unask + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unask
    form of unask