unreturning en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + returning.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not returning; not coming back.
So, thou hast pass'd the unreturning gate, Where dust with dust doth linger, and gone down In all the beauty of thy blooming years To this most sacred city of the dead.
1842, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tomb of a Young Friend at Mount Auburn, page 34:For gifts that die have living memories— Voices of unreturning days, that breathe The spirit of a day that never dies.
1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Dedication, page 4: