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unexcusing en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + excusing.

Meanings

1. Not excusing.
   • In the year 1857 we had occasion to note that of all the Quarterlies that reviewed our antislavery struggle, the British was the most ultra antislavery, the most unsparing and unexcusing. 1864 January, “Synopsis of the Quarterlies, and Others of the Higher Periodicals”, in The Methodist Quarterly Review, volume XLVI (fourth series, volume XVI), New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Porter, page 149:
   • […]; and this in the most part with a great indifference like that of Scripture history, which sets down, with unmoved and unexcusing resoluteness, the virtues and errors of all men of whom it speaks, often leaving the reader to form his own estimate of them, without an indication of the judgment of the historian. 1851, John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, volume the second (The Sea-Stories), New York, N.Y.: John W. Lovell Company, page 198:
   • Men could know nothing of the endless storm of being a woman. Nothing of the final strength of a woman, of her toughness, of her unexcusing, unforgiving sense of reality. 1957, John McPartland, No Down Payment, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 257:

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