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Unbowed   /ənbˈoʊd/  /ənbˈaʊd/   Listen
Unbowed

adjective
1.
Erect in posture.  Synonyms: straight, unbent.  "Stood defiantly with unbowed back"
2.
Not forced to bow down to a conqueror.






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"Unbowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... she stood, soaked through and through, a frail child of the street, plying her trade, and singing in the rain. The silhouette of this frail girl and her spirit is typical of France: "Her head though bloody is unbowed." Somehow ...
— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger

... stood at bay before its fellow's vengeance. By this time all those of alien blood had dropped away from its single body like engrafted limbs. Its trunk stood bare and barkless before the blast, we to wring from its bloody, unbowed head, obeisance to our will—a will that had begun in covetousness of commerce, in rancor of humiliating reminiscence, in rage of race rivalry, a will that had grown beyond our grasp, beyond our consciousness. We lusted for the day that should press ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



Words linked to "Unbowed" :   unbent, upright, erect, undefeated, straight, vertical



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