unmisgiving en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + misgiving.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unmisgiving | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unmisgiving | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |