unreturningly

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adverb

Without returning or coming back.

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Meanings

adverbunreturningly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout 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, →OCLC, page 36

Origin

From unreturning + -ly.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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