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unreturningly

unreturningly adverb: without returning or coming back.

Adverb

unreturningly (not comparable)

  1. Without returning or coming back.
    • What seeks he? All that others seek / He casts away, like a vile weed / Which the sea casts unreturningly.1818 August, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819...

Origin of unreturningly

From unreturning + -ly.

Questions about unreturningly

What does unreturningly mean?
Unreturningly means without returning or coming back.
What part of speech is unreturningly?
Unreturningly is an adverb.

Words near unreturningly in the dictionary

  1. unreturnability
  2. unreturnable
  3. unreturnably
  4. unreturned
  5. unreturning
  6. unreturningly
  7. unretweet
  8. unretweeted
  9. unretweeting
  10. unretweets
  11. unreusable

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