unwincing

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ wincing.

Adjective

unwincing (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly figuratively) Not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
    • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 41, in North and South:
      So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.
    • 1932, Barrett Willoughby, “8, 1”, in Spawn of the North, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
      There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.

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