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1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, II. xi. 98. The River … gently mingled itselfe with the unresisting Sea.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xx. 270. The bondage of conquered, wounded, unresisting people.
1691. Norris, Pract. Disc., 329. As a Stone … [falling] through an unresisting Medium.
1744. Thomson, Spring, 440. To the Shore You gayly drag your unresisting Prize.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek, 116. That unresisting languor, so frequently fatal to the female heart.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii. III. 282. The Jacobites, silent and unresisting, became prisoners.
1874. J. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, xxi. 270. The rocky crust of the earth must needs have been as unresisting as putty.
Hence Unresistingly adv., -ness.
1797. Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, vi. Ellena followed unresistingly up a path.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, xxvi. They … unresistingly left their property to the hands of the spoilers.
1883. Knowledge, 20 July, 34/2. Groaningly it may be, but still unresistingly.
1900. Mrs. H. Ward, Eleanor, vi. Her attitude by its sad unresistingness appealed to Lucy.
