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- adjective Not
surrendering ;indomitable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chechnya's peaceful Sufi Muslims might take solace in the unsurrendering spirit of Russia's anti-totalitarian poet, Anna Akhmatova:
Thor Halvorssen: Moscow's Shadow War -- Playing Today in Poland 2010
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We are, indeed, still in a most unsurrendering mood.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871
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He has a most unsurrendering face, but I do not think that he would either hold out vain hopes to the Parisians, or flatter their vanity.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871
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The face of one wholly in protest, and life-long unsurrendering battle, against the world.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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