Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not resting; continually in motion or action; restless.

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  • adjective Not resting; ceaseless

Etymologies

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un- +‎ resting

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Examples

  • The "unresting" traveller reached Copenhagen on the 19th of August, and on the very same day embarked again for Sweden and Norway.

    The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

  • These endured unresting till they rested from their labours –

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010

  • There was the time that Har, my brother, and I, sleeping and pursuing in turn, ever hounding the wild stallion through the daytime and night, and in a wide circle that met where the sleeping one lay, drove the stallion unresting through hunger and thirst to the meekness of weakness, so that in the end he could but stand and tremble while we bound him with ropes twisted of deer-hide.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Yet still the unresting castles thresh in full-grown thickness every May.

    After Loss, Turning To Poetry For Grief And Healing 2010

  • I can't help but wonder, young medievalist that I am, if that interpretation of the medieval instinct (about architecture, perhaps, but no less medieval for that) might ultimately be the one we should long for: the unresting search for change, rather than Brooks 'wish for enchantment, meaning and symbols.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • These endured unresting till they rested from their labours–

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet 2010

  • For Shelley, unresting sound is the mode of the verse, discharging the very words and their inventory of letters from the end of the first stanza and into the dramatic turn to the apostrophe in the next:

    Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

  • I can't help but wonder, young medievalist that I am, if that interpretation of the medieval instinct (about architecture, perhaps, but no less medieval for that) might ultimately be the one we should long for: the unresting search for change, rather than Brooks 'wish for enchantment, meaning and symbols.

    Escaping The Waning of the Middle Ages Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • Glory and worship to the Lord of all things pay we unresting, who alone adorèd

    Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009

  • Glory and worship to the Lord of all things pay we unresting, who alone adorèd

    "The Feast of the Purification of the B. V. Mary (Feb. 2)" (also called "Candlemas," and "The Presentation") bls 2009

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