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Unbending   /ˌənbˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Unbending

adjective
1.
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances.  Synonyms: inflexible, rigid.  "An inflexible law" , "An unbending will to dominate"


Unbend

verb
(past & past part. unbent; pres. part. unbending)
1.
Straighten up or out; make straight.  Synonym: straighten.  Antonym: bend.
2.
Unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay.
3.
Free from flexure.  Antonym: bend.
4.
Make less taut.  Synonym: relax.
5.
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.  Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind.  "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"  Antonym: tense.
6.
Release from mental strain, tension, or formality.





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"Unbending" Quotes from Famous Books



... I trust nothing but the brevity of human life, which one day cannot fail to release me from an existence that has proved an almost intolerable burden. You know Vogt says, 'The natural laws are rude, unbending powers,' and I comfort myself by hoping that they can neither be bribed nor browbeaten out of the discharge of their duty, which points to death as 'the surest calculation that can be made,—as the unavoidable keystone of every individual life.' A grim consolation, ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... Skinner, with the air of a man who had always been accustomed to traveling with such people and was now unbending to confide familiar items of special interest to some unsophisticated listener. "You'd find ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... their idol, and every gazer would inevitably be familiarized with the name and address of Mr Cowlishaw, and with the fact that Mr Cowlishaw was dentist-in-chief to the heroical Rannoch. Unfortunately, in dentistry there is etiquette. And the etiquette of dentistry is as terrible, as unbending, as the etiquette of ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... Heaven is sent, In faithful supplication; Her earthly stay 's Macallummore, The guardian o' the nation. A hero's heart—a sister's love— A martyr's truth unbending; They 're a' in Jeanie's tartan plaid— And she is gane, her leefu' lane, To Lunnon toun ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety—the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind—who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth


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