ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not pardoned or canceled.
1646. Hammond, Tracts, 27. Sin unretracted … doth certainly stand upon the sinners score unremitted.
2. Not allowed to slacken or fall off; maintained at the same pitch or force; continuous.
Very common from c. 1760.
1722–7. Boyer, Dict. Royal, II. Unremitted, (incessant), continuel.
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 430. Against the … stubborn hill To urge bold Virtue’s unremitted nerve.
1781. C. Johnston, Hist. J. Juniper, I. 13. Her endeavours … had been unremitted.
1820. Scott, Monast., xi. Assiduity and unremitted attention.
1842. H. Rogers, Introd. Burke’s Wks., I. 26. The fatigues of such years of unremitted toil.
3. Of persons: Unremitting.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 329. Several men of abilities … were unremitted in their endeavours.
1833. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1853), 588. The pastor … ought to be … unremitted in his superintendence of the masters.
Hence Unremittedly adv.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek, 22. His wives … unremittedly supplied him with water.
1792. in J. Morse, Amer. Geog. (1796), I. 510. Through which aperture the water unremittedly drops.
1889. Engineer, 10 May, 408. An advantage which Swansea has been striving for unremittedly, and will gain this autumn.
