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uncapitulating

uncapitulating adjective: not capitulating.

Adjective

uncapitulating (comparative more uncapitulating, superlative most uncapitulating)

  1. Not capitulating.
    • ...Beholding frail mortality thus waging / A deadly, uncapitulating strife / With the most powerful of created beings...1869, I Plimsott, The Temptation of Christ
    • His lips were compressed into thin, uncapitulating lines, giving him the look of a creature unconquered, secretly chafing...1919, Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, Little Mother America

Forms of uncapitulating

comparativemore uncapitulating
superlativemost uncapitulating

Origin of uncapitulating

From un- + capitulating.

Questions about uncapitulating

What does uncapitulating mean?
Uncapitulating means not capitulating.
What part of speech is uncapitulating?
Uncapitulating is an adjective.

Words near uncapitulating in the dictionary

  1. uncapitalize
  2. uncapitalized
  3. uncapitalizes
  4. uncapitalizing
  5. uncapitulated
  6. uncapitulating
  7. uncaponized
  8. uncappable
  9. uncapped
  10. uncapper
  11. uncappers

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