ppl. a. [UN-1 10.] Not shrinking or drawing back; unyielding, firm.
1605. Shaks., Macb., V. viii. 42. The which no sooner had his Prowesse confirm’d In the vnshrinking station where he fought, But like a man he dy’de.
1706. Watts, Horæ Lyr., II. (1743), 169. He that unshrinking and without a Groan, Bears the first Wound.
1799. Sheridan, Pizarro, IV. ii. Thy unshrinking ears may at last be feasted with the music of my cries.
1845. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 15. A union of prudence, tact, firmness, and unshrinking principle.
1878. B. Taylor, Deukalion, I. iv. 34. The firm-set lips, And level glance of thine unshrinking eyes.
Hence Unshrinkingly adv.
1826. Mrs. Hemans, Forest Sanctuary, I. xlv. There was one, with whom … Thou might’st perchance, unshrinkingly have died.
1857. Susanna Winkworth, trans. Life Tauler, 135. They … unshrinkingly declared their adherence to all that they had hitherto taught.
