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- adjective Not offering
opposition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have grassroots groups that swear obedience to the opposition party, even as the useless unopposing party condemns the activists.
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Knight walked on, and Elfride with him, silent and unopposing.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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The balloon rose about half a mile from the earth, and with a favourable wind it hurried through the air, its feathered vans cleaving the unopposing atmosphere.
The Last Man 2003
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How many naval commanders have enriched themselves, by fortunate captures of unopposing treasure-ships, or on long preserved snug stations, without the smallest personal hazard, to a degree far beyond what his lordship ever acquired, who was continually engaged in scenes of the utmost fatigue and peril!
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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Knight walked on, and Elfride with him, silent and unopposing.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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Master Chuter spoke with triumph in his tone, but it was the triumph of delivering his sentiments to unopposing hearers.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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The balloon rose about half a mile from the earth, and with a favourable wind it hurried through the air, its feathered vans cleaving the unopposing atmosphere.
I.4a 1826
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The balloon rose about half a mile from the earth, and with a favourable wind it hurried through the air, its feathered vans cleaving the unopposing atmosphere.
The Last Man 1826
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The balloon rose about half a mile from the earth, and with a favourable wind it hurried through the air, its feathered vans cleaving the unopposing atmosphere.
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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How many naval commanders have enriched themselves, by fortunate captures of unopposing treasure-ships, or on long preserved snug stations, without the smallest personal hazard, to a degree far beyond what his lordship ever acquired, who was continually engaged in scenes of the utmost fatigue and peril!
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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