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unmisgiving en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + misgiving.

Meanings

  1. Without misgivings.
    • A little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

Forms

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most unmisgiving Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unmisgiving Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unmisgivingly