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English
Etymology
1728, un- + remitting, from remit (in now rare sense of “diminish, abate”),
from Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”), present active infinitive of remittō. Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter. Not from nonexistent unremit.
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unremitting (comparative more unremitting, superlative most unremitting)
- Incessant; never slackening.
1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 October 2011:These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
- We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 114:In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.
2021 July 14, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Porterbrook takes over Long Marston rail site”, in RAIL, number 935, page 28:"To meet the ambitions set-out by the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, we need to have an unremitting focus upon sustainable delivery, innovation and collaboration. [...]."
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