Meanings
adjectiveunwithdrawing (not comparable)
- not comparableThat does not withdraw.
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
Comus
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC1 more example
On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]
1831, Henry Cogswell Knight, Lectures and Sermons, volume 2, page 104
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