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unexcusing

unexcusing adjective: not excusing.

Adjective

unexcusing (comparative more unexcusing, superlative most unexcusing)

  1. Not excusing.
    • […]; and this in the most part with a great indifference like that of Scripture history, which sets down, with unmoved and unexcusing resoluteness, the virtues and errors of all men of whom it speaks, often leaving the reader to form his own estimate of them, without an indication of the judgment...1851, John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, volume the second (The Sea-Stories), New York, N.Y.: John W. Lovell Company, page 198
    • In the year 1857 we had occasion to note that of all the Quarterlies that reviewed our antislavery struggle, the British was the most ultra antislavery, the most unsparing and unexcusing.1864 January, “Synopsis of the Quarterlies, and Others of the Higher Periodicals”, in The Methodist Quarterly Review, volume XLVI (fourth series, volume XVI), New York, N.Y.: Carlton & Porter, page...

Forms of unexcusing

comparativemore unexcusing
superlativemost unexcusing

Origin of unexcusing

From un- + excusing.

Questions about unexcusing

What does unexcusing mean?
Unexcusing means not excusing.
What part of speech is unexcusing?
Unexcusing is an adjective.

Words near unexcusing in the dictionary

  1. unexcusable
  2. unexcusableness
  3. unexcusably
  4. unexcused
  5. unexcusedly
  6. unexcusing
  7. unexecrated
  8. unexecutable
  9. unexecute
  10. unexecuted
  11. unexecutes

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