ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1727. Thomson, Summer, 299. With unfaultering accent to conclude That This availeth nought?
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 163. Thro’ the tossing tide of chance and pain To hold his course unfaltering.
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxix. He tells me of it with … an eye composed, an unfaltering tongue.
1862. ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., v. 233. The confident and unfaltering witness of the strong man, who goes to the stake with… sense of triumph in his heart.
So Unfalteringly adv.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., I. iv. 169. Unfaultringly to traverse Adversitie’s rough ways.
1850. Mrs. Sarah Ellis, Pique, II. xii. 286. Lady Catherine turned away, and taking up one of the tapers, unfalteringly approached the door.
1885. Manch. Exam., 9 Sept., 3/2. A character who is at once vividly human … and unfalteringly noble.
