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  • adjective Not wincing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ wincing

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Examples

  • Canon Eluard had it opened for him, and gazed upon the remains within, grim-faced but unwincing.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • Canon Eluard had it opened for him, and gazed upon the remains within, grim-faced but unwincing.

    The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

  • What a kid he was, despite his six-feet three, and the time he had gone under the knife, unwincing, but fully conscious, because his heart was weak just then and the doctors were afraid of anæsthetics!

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.

    North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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