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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unwinking en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + winking.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not winking.
    • […] what was now lying at his feet, and staring him out of countenance with its big, green, unwinking eyes, was the cat […] 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) Constantly on one's guard; vigilant.
    • All your anxious care, all your unwinking vigilance, is necessary to preserve you from your great adversary. 1792, Vicesimus Knox, Sermons, chiefly intended to promote Faith, Hope, and Charity:

Deriveds

unwinkingly