Meanings
- Not raining.
Like an unraining cloud, like an ocean without waves: as he held his breath in yoga, he seemed to be a lamp unwavering without a breath of wind.
1988 January 1, Charles Dillard Collins, Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta, The, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 513 more examples
The festivities lasted four or five days, beneath a solemn but unraining November cloud, which afforded an artistic background to the fluttering miles of painted bunting which gaudily draped the sombre town.
1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies, page 370... and scatters the storms and unraining clouds of Scythia; then the tall corn and the stretches of water quiver with the first gentle blasts, and the tops of the woods rustle and the long rollers press towards the beach; but[…]
1924, Virgil, translated by ?, Virgil: the Georgics: Partly in the Original and Partly in Translation, page 55Stock-image lapwings and stock-image grebes were added to cloudless, unraining skies; and in driveways stock-image residents unpacked groceries from their stock-image cars. Mostly though there were houses. Hundreds of them; […]
2016 January 18, Stuart Evers, Your Father Sends His Love: Stories, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN
Cite this entry
unraining. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unraining
“unraining.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unraining. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unraining,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unraining.
Source: unraining on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.