unreturning

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ returning.

Adjective

unreturning (not comparable)

  1. Not returning; not coming back.
    • 1842, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tomb of a Young Friend at Mount Auburn, page 34:
      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.
    • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Dedication, page 4:
      For gifts that die have living memories—
      Voices of unreturning days, that breathe
      The spirit of a day that never dies.

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