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Etymology tree English unblinking Middle English -ly English -ly English unblinkingly From unblinking + -ly.

(not-comparable) Without blinking; firmly.
- Unblinkingly the girl kept her first vigil. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 207:
- She stood this inspection unblinkingly, incapable of the little insincerities of self-consciousness, but when it was over, and Bradly had resumed his normal face, she gave a relieved wriggle, as if satisfied by an ordeal which obviously satisfied Bradly, for he said with approval, "Comes well, that hat; paint you in that hat; picks up reflected lights a treat, that hat." 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 105:
- To restore investor confidence, Lula installed an unblinkingly orthodox economic team at the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance, which hiked interest rates yet further and cut public investment, to achieve a primary fiscal surplus higher even than the figure the IMF had demanded. 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
- In the sprawling Reddit community r/collapse, people instead try to stare unblinkingly at the unravelling of civilization. 2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

el ασκαρδαμυκτί (without blinking)