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UNENDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continuing forever or indefinitely
Example:
the unending bliss of heaven
Synonyms:
aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; everlasting; perpetual; unceasing; unending
Classified under:
Similar:
lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)
Context examples:
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His temper had been savage by birth, but it became more savage under this unending persecution.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He was impelled to suggest Locksley Hall, and would have done so, had not his vision gripped him again and left him staring at her, the female of his kind, who, out of the primordial ferment, creeping and crawling up the vast ladder of life for a thousand thousand centuries, had emerged on the topmost rung, having become one Ruth, pure, and fair, and divine, and with power to make him know love, and to aspire toward purity, and to desire to taste divinity—him, Martin Eden, who, too, had come up in some amazing fashion from out of the ruck and the mire and the countless mistakes and abortions of unending creation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He slept long hours and dreamed much, and through his mind passed an unending pageant of Northland visions.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
