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undictating

undictating adjective: not dictating.

Adjective

undictating (not comparable)

  1. Not dictating.
    • I never can cease admiring that beautiful request of the Prayer-book, ‘A happy issue out of all their affliction.’ It is so humble, so undictating to God, so moderate, yet so ample. God give that to us both. Amen. In His way and time, and in this world and in the next.1860, Jessie Aitken Wilson, Memoir of George Wilson, page 396
    • On another side by the filial temper—confident, loving, obedient, undictating—Our Father. Yet again by reverence—hallowed be thy name—irreverence passes out of the region of true prayer directly.1913, Missionary Voice, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Board of Missions, page 759

Origin of undictating

From un- + dictating.

Questions about undictating

What does undictating mean?
Undictating means not dictating.
What part of speech is undictating?
Undictating is an adjective.

Words near undictating in the dictionary

  1. undiaphanous
  2. undiatonic
  3. undichotomized
  4. undichotomous
  5. undictated
  6. undictating
  7. undictatorial
  8. undictionaried
  9. undid
  10. undidactic
  11. undidactically

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