Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unfading manner; so as not to fade; imperishably.
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- adverb In an
unfading way;eternally ,immortally .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other echoes from the same source linger with me, I confess, as unfadingly — if it be not all indeed one much-embracing echo.
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How delicately pink it is, and yet how unfadingly it stands the summer's sun, the hot air, the drought!
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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Other echoes from the same source linger with me, I confess, as unfadingly -- if it be not all indeed one much-embracing echo.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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But the great pleasure, after all, was to revisit the earlier masters, in those specimens of them chiefly that bloom so unfadingly on the big plain walls of the Academy.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving's _Legends of the Conquest of Spain; _ or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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'Lilies are indeed emblems of the saints; but then they are not poor flowers of earth, being transfigured, lustrous unfadingly.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Lilies are indeed emblems of the saints; but then they are not poor flowers of earth, being transfigured, lustrous unfadingly.
Farina George Meredith 1868
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'Lilies are indeed emblems of the saints; but then they are not poor flowers of earth, being transfigured, lustrous unfadingly.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s
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