Unfailing
[ʌn'feɪlɪŋ] or [ʌn'felɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) unceasing; 'unfailing loyalty'; 'unfailing good spirits'; 'unflagging courtesy' .
(adj.) always able to supply more; 'an unfailing source of good stories'; 'a subject of unfailing interest' .
Editor: Seth--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure.
Typist: Paul
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inexhaustible, exhaustless, certain, constant, not liable to fail.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
adj. not failing or liable to fail.—adj. Unfail′able (obs.) infallible.—n. Unfail′ableness.—adv. Unfail′ingly.—n. Unfail′ingness.
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Examples
- Yet the unfailing mechanism of her will worked on, she had that activity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They'll make you sick, says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The unfailing constant source of atmospheric oxygen is plant life (Section 48). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This other, this state of constant unfailing repudiation, was a strain, a suffering also. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is at such times as these that his unfailing patience and tremendous resourcefulness are in evidence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Do you mean, like Gerty Farish, to recommend the unfailing panacea of 'a good man's love'? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- So many influences modify atmospheric conditions that unfailing predictions are impossible, but the Weather Bureau predictions prove true in about eight cases out of ten. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It made the colour burn in her cheeks, but her heart was quite firm and unfailing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If it were not for this use of the earth as an unfailing conductor, the network of overhead wires in our city streets would be even more complex than it now is. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Dress was the one unfailing talisman and charm used for keeping all things in their places. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Indeed, long past infancy, children and young people are the happiest under the unfailing laws of a discreet, firm authority. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- While I see you carrying out high intentions with vigor, you shall have my unfailing support. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I assure you I found poor Hicks's judgment unfailing; I never knew him wrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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