Definitions
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- adverb In an
unmoving manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As if in a wax display, her hand was unmovingly poised above the embroidery.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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Perhaps this is the thing that you have persistently, doggedly, unmovingly been unable to comprehend.
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At the appropriate moment, I would hold my breath, and stare unmovingly at the crucified Jesus with all the reverence I could summon.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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At the appropriate moment, I would hold my breath, and stare unmovingly at the crucified Jesus with all the reverence I could summon.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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We have to cease ( 'gag, stop) all movement of the constituent-source energy-drops and bind them unmovingly.
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He watched the King, whose eyes were still so intent on the mirror, who sat so unmovingly, that he might have been fashioned of metal like the objects about him and not of flesh and blood.
Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975
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A cold, indefinite sensation stole over him that he was being watched; that some dim, evil presence was behind him biding its time, patient and stealthy, with eyes fixed unmovingly on him where he stood.
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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Mrs. McMahon alone stood unmovingly erect, stiffly pugnacious on the instant.
Making People Happy Thompson Buchanan 1907
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My father assumed his inevitable composure -- firmly and almost unmovingly seated -- and looked at me squarely with a not unkind premonition of a smile.
Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Frank Jenne Cannon 1902
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They were dark liquid brown and seemed to be all lustrous iris which gazed unmovingly at the object in of focus.
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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