ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Not willing or seeking to compromise; unyielding, unbending; stiff, stubborn: a. Of persons.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, II. i. We must pursue the same course—stern and uncompromising.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., v. I. 541. The most honest, fearless, and uncompromising republican of his time.
1863. ‘Ouida,’ Held in Bondage, vi. Among uncompromising patriots as among poor foreigners.
b. Of feelings, attitudes of mind, etc.
1830. Forrester, III. 89. [He was] aroused … to a full sense of the danger he had incurred by his uncompromising hostility.
1885. ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, vii. Whose uncompromising sincerity might convince the hardest skeptic of its reality.
c. fig. Of things.
1875. Lady Barker, Year’s Housekeeping S. Africa, i. (1877), 7. The ‘Devil’s Peak’ is uncompromising enough for any one’s taste.
1889. Hissey, Tour in Phaeton, 363. A square house ‘with no nonsense about it,’… an uncompromising square house.
Hence Uncompromisingly adv.; -ness.
1837. Pusey, Lett., in Liddon, Life (1894), I. 388. However *uncompromisingly they maintain the maxim.
1888. Miss Braddon, Fatal Three, I. iv. The dressmaker sent home three new frocks, all uncompromisingly ugly.
1865. Pusey, Eiren., 284. The *uncompromisingness of the Church of England in maintaining Catholic truth.
1894. Fortn. Rev., May, 690. Even her uncompromisingness is preferable to the ostentatious abandonment of principles.
