Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Never sleeping or slumbering; always watching or vigilant.

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  • adjective Not slumbering; unsleeping.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ slumbering

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Examples

  • Silently and invisibly, yet with unslumbering assiduity, Odd-Fellowship watches over him, and by its wise counsels, its tender sympathies and rational restraints, saves him from the ways of vice.

    The Jericho Road W. Bion Adkins

  • Central Bank of the State of Georgia -- an institution of such magnitude as to merit and demand the most unslumbering vigilance of the freemen of this State; as a portion of whom, we feel bound to express our

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Central Bank of the State of Georgia -- an institution of such magnitude as to merit and demand the most unslumbering vigilance of the freemen of this State; as a portion of whom, we feel bound to express our

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The unslumbering eye of Heaven, however, and the unerring fiat of divine justice, proved less oblivious of this monstrous crime.

    The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

  • But he fought his way back, sent his ships, singly or in couples, to Torbay or Plymouth for a moment's breathing space, but himself held on, with a grim courage and an unslumbering vigilance which have never been surpassed.

    Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes 1886

  • Not only so, but from this same unslumbering quality of self-love you have to develop regard for others.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • Where was the dweller of her daily thoughts, the bright apparition of her unslumbering pillow?

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • In order to preserve this reticence, unslumbering care and many precautions were absolutely necessary.

    Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870

  • So now we see him at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, flung down in a moment by a lie from the height to which he had slowly been climbing, having lost the confidence of his master, and earned the unslumbering hatred of a wicked woman.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • His unslumbering suspicion "eyed David from that day."

    The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

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