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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unwalking en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + walking.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not walking.
    • So far as I can see, unconscious consciousness is in precisely the same position, logically, as unthinking thinking, or unwalking walking […] 1922, Mind, volume 31, page 442:
    • September 5, 1769, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway I […] am so unwalking, that prospects are more agreeable to me when framed and glazed […]
    • Your unwalking feet are stasis; your hands, motion, "mutually interested" in embroidering, earlier today, the "wicked, yellow-lidded eye" of a cross-stitched peacock. 1988, Sandra McPherson, Streamers, page 25: