Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not liable to wither or fade.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not withering; staying fresh and whole.
Etymologies
- un- + withering (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Jonathan Walters and Rory Delap scored the hosts' fifth and sixth league goals of the season to maintain an unwithering, unbeaten home record.”
The Guardian: Matthew Upson revels in Stoke City's ethos following Fulham victory
“The memory of his mother's life was still fragrant to hundreds, fresh and dewy in love's unwithering morn; upon the tide of prayer had Geordie's infant life been launched, and its gentle waves, faint but palpable, still sought to lave his soul.”
“Sévigné brought her bright, incisive wit, trebly commended by stainless reputation, unwithering beauty, and charming address, in the woman who wielded it.”
“He represents the unwithering in the very home of corruption.”
“Nativity, the prelude to the triumph-song in which they shall unite who receive from Christ the unwithering crown.”
“He walked in the gardens of the intellectual gods and gathered sweets for the soul from a thousand unwithering flowers.”
“And her feminine heart, always unwithering, always drawn to love, like a sunflower to the sun, was at this moment pure and inclined to tenderness.”
“And wherever this man of radiant face measured he caused the waters to run in dry places and deep rivers to course where the waters were but ankle-deep; fish to swarm again in the rivers and the seas to be free of pollution; salt to come in the miry places and trees to grow upon the land with unwithering leaves and abundant meat.”
“Sharon and the lily-of-the-valley; where spread the undecaying, unwithering branches of the tree of life.”
“It is as a watered garden, a fertile spot where blooms the unfading rose of Sharon and the lily-of-the-valley; where spread the undecaying, unwithering branches of the tree of life.”
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