Meanings
- not comparableNot dictating.
Human beings were cruel and beastly. She had never received love from a human—not the love of little Peeko, not the adoring faithful undictating eyes.
1932, Terence Hanbury White, They Winter Abroad, Viking Press, page 2422 more examples
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 396On 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
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishdictating
- Englishundictating
Cite this entry
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