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unremitting

[ uhn-ri-mit-ing ]

/ ˌʌn rɪˈmɪt ɪŋ /

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adjective

not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.

Origin of unremitting

1720–30; un-¹ + remitting

OTHER WORDS FROM unremitting

un·re·mit·ting·ly, adverb un·re·mit·ting·ness, noun

Words nearby unremitting

unreligious, unremarkable, unremitted, unremittedly, unremittent, unremitting, unrent, unrepair, unrepairable, unrepeatable, unrepentant

Example sentences from the Web for unremittingly

And now, these same institutions need to step up and rein in an unremittingly radical right.

Can Corporate America Break the Radical Right? |Michael Tomasky |October 14, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The instinct which teaches children how not to be little sociopaths also instructs them, unremittingly, to conform.

Isolated at a Young Age |David Frum |May 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Love is Proust's great theme, but his depiction of it is unremittingly negative.

David's Bookclub: Sodom and Gomorrah |David Frum |September 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Instead, the reaction of Wall Street was uniformly, unremittingly negative.

Wall Street’s Irrational Negative Reaction to Apple’s Earnings Report |Zachary Karabell |July 25, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

The kindness of which we have had so many proofs, has followed, accompanied, and preceded us all unremittingly and unweariedly.

Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. II (of 2) |W. H. Russell
From that date to the present time it has unremittingly carried out the great ends for which it was instituted.

The Lifeboat |R.M. Ballantyne
From that moment he entered actively and unremittingly on his course of intellectual training.

Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis |John A. J. Creswell
You are unremittingly courteous, considering that you are you.

The Dual Alliance |Marjorie Benton Cooke
It assumed a definite shape, and commenced that system of warfare which has since been unremittingly waged against the South.

History of American Abolitionism |F. G. De Fontaine

British Dictionary definitions for unremittingly

unremitting

/ (ˌʌnrɪˈmɪtɪŋ) /

adjective

never slackening or stopping; unceasing; constant

Derived forms of unremitting

unremittingly, adverb unremittingness, noun