Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not weeping; not shedding or dropping tears; as, unweeping eyes. Drayton, Duke Humphrey to Elenor Cobham.
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- adjective Not
weeping .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To every altar in Admetus's house she went, hung them with garlands. offered prayer, cut myrtle boughs-unweeping, unlamenting; nor did the coming doom change the bright colour of her face.
Alcestis 2007
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To every altar in Admetus's house she went, hung them with garlands. offered prayer, cut myrtle boughs-unweeping, unlamenting; nor did the coming doom change the bright colour of her face.
Alcestis 2007
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That moaning flood ebbing to silence ... those rosy promontories lit with angel wings ... and over all as large and still as heaven, the cold, unweeping eyes of
Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918
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Had there been an unweeping eye, the bosom of such a person must have been steeled with adamant, and it would have been demonstration to me that he pos - sessed onh 'the shape of humanity.
Collections 1792
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"So the Hostage departed with them, and she unweeping, but we wept sorely.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
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