Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not murmuring; not complaining: as, unmurmuring patience.

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  • adjective Not murmuring; without protest or complaint.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ murmuring

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Examples

  • He warmly represented the cruelty of thus flying him, entreated but the privilege of addressing her as a common acquaintance; and promised, upon that condition, to submit unmurmuring to her rejection.

    Camilla 2008

  • Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love.

    Camilla 2008

  • His faculties seemed walled up in him, and were unmurmuring in their captivity.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • We have no more to expose ourselves on the bare hedges to the wind and snow; no more to carry ourselves erect when the gale sweeps, to bear our burden upheld; or stay, unmurmuring, on those pallid noondays when the bird creeps close to the bough and the damp whitens the leaf.

    The Waves 2003

  • When the time came, he gave up his apparatus to another and returned to the vitiated air on board, calm, unflinching, unmurmuring.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • We were struggling on, hopeful and unmurmuring, when the word passed from landing to landing one morning that the boy who was sick in the first flat had been visited by a doctor, who said he had typhus.

    The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

  • Do you imagine, because a load is borne with unmurmuring patience, that the weight is gradually lessening and the burden will soon be lifted?

    Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life Grace Beaumont

  • I much admired that part of Jane Taylor's "Remains" which describes her cheerful and unmurmuring acceptance of a humble quiet life, and her dislike of mere show and machinery in benevolence.

    A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

  • The glorious courage, the patient, unmurmuring heroism, the tenacity not allowing defeat, which were displayed during the long and dreary months of the siege of Sebastopol, and the ultimate triumph of our arms, aroused the nation from its indifference, and kindled for its defenders

    From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

  • It is such a meditation as ought to reproach very keenly the sceptics who doubted Mr. Du Chaillu's first book; it certainly renews in the reader of the present work the satisfaction felt in the comparative reasonableness of the things narrated, and his consequent ability to put an unmurmuring trust in the author.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

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