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  • adjective Not straying; constant.

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un- +‎ straying

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Examples

  • But many, too, bewildered and confused by what they see -- as light from a mirror flashed into the eye half blinds -- have peeped over the hedge and, miscalculating their power of self-control, have entered in, and returned no more into the quiet garden of unstraying love.

    Michel and Angele — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • But many, too, bewildered and confused by what they see -- as light from a mirror flashed into the eye half blinds -- have peeped over the hedge and, miscalculating their power of self-control, have entered in, and returned no more into the quiet garden of unstraying love.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • But many, too, bewildered and confused by what they see -- as light from a mirror flashed into the eye half blinds -- have peeped over the hedge and, miscalculating their power of self-control, have entered in, and returned no more into the quiet garden of unstraying love.

    Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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