unreturning

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adjective

Not returning; not coming back.

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Meanings

adjectiveunreturning (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot returning; not coming back.

    For gifts that die have living memories— Voices of unreturning days, that breathe The spirit of a day that never dies.

    1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Dedication, page 4
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    So, thou hast pass'd the unreturning gate, Where dust with dust doth linger, and gone down In all the beauty of thy blooming years To this most sacred city of the dead.

    1842, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tomb of a Young Friend at Mount Auburn, page 34

Origin

From un- + returning.

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APA

unreturning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturning

MLA

“unreturning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreturning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturning.

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