All 4 Uses of
unremitting
in
John Adams by McCullough
- The King's conduct was called one of "repeated" rather than "unremitting" injuries.
Subsection 1.3.1 *unremitting = continuing without a break
- The whole is an astonishing machinery, created, connected, constantly preserved by the labor, industry, and unremitting attention of its inhabitants at an expense beyond calculation.†
Subsection 2.5.2
- Alone at his desk at Poplar Forest, where more than a hundred slaves labored in the fields beyond his window, Jefferson had written one of themost impassioned denunciations of his life, decrying slavery as an extreme depravity: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions [Jefferson had written], the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.†
Subsection 2.6.4
- She has been aspirit from above watching over me for good, and contributing by my mere consciousness of her existence, to the comfort of my life…… Never have I known another human being, the perpetual object of whose life, was so unremittingly to do good.†
Subsection 3.12.2
Definition:
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(unremitting) continuing without a break