Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fainting; not sinking or succumbing or giving way.
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Examples
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And I shall give myself up, in ending this discourse, to what is of much more importance to him and to us all, than all these things taken together, -- for Sir Thomas Browne was a believing man, and a man of unfainting and unrelaxing prayer.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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So Messiah is represented as unfainting in His efforts for His people (Isa 42: 4; 50: 7). righteousness thereof -- not its own inherently, but imputed to it, for its restoration to God's favor: hence "salvation" answers to it in the parallelism.
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Lame limbs are endowed with strength, and can run in the way of His commandments, and walk with unfainting perseverance the thorniest paths of duty and self-sacrifice.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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That is to say, fellowship with God in the heavens, which is made possible on earth by communion with Christ, is the condition both of the unwearied running and of unfainting walking.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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So again the contrast between Him and us is set forth, but, in the verse that closes the chapter, we read how that contrast merges into likeness, inasmuch as the unfainting and unwearied God makes even the men that wait upon Him unwearied and unfainting.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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There is a dreary stretch in the centre, where it takes much faith and self-command to plod on unfainting.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The lapse of ages brings not age to them who 'wait on the Lord' in the higher ministries of heaven, and run unwearied, and walk unfainting, and when they are seen by men are radiant with immortal youth.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868
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So it is from God, the unfainting and the unwearied, that the strength comes which makes our steps buoyant with energy amidst the commonplace, and steadfast and established at the crises of our lives.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Source of all energy and might, who when they 'drop with quivering wings, composed and still,' down to the low earth, there live unwearied and unfainting.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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No tongue can utter, or heart conceive, the unspeakable reward which an unwearied, unfainting diligence in well-doing, attends the humble believer; it begins in this world, and is consummated in endless glory.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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