Unwearied

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. OE. unʓewériʓod.] Of persons, things, etc.: Not wearied, tired, or tired out; also, never becoming weary; indefatigable.

a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 261. Þe oðre … iblescede gastes þe beoð a biuore godd … ant singeð a unwerȝed.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 3622. Þe pepill … ware petusly woundid Of Olifauntis…; All at vnweried a-way wynnes in þe stoundis Durst neuir his face to his faes eft on fold bide.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 141 b. The vnweried chieftain & manly warrior.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., III. ii. 296. The best condition’d and vnwearied spirit In doing curtesies.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., I. 27. They intreated me to come vp in the Caroch, but I … would not, replying … my body [was] vnwearied.

a. 1684.  Leighton, Comm. 1 Pet. ii. (1693), 472. The Soul that is most active, and unwearied in Sin.

1707.  Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 313. We might spend whole Years unwearied in the Examination of them.

1791.  Cowper, Iliad, XVIII. 293. The sun, Unwearied minister of light.

1816.  Wilson, City of Plague, II. ii. 79. The fairy … On plumes unwearied … floateth still.

1818.  Milman, Samor, VIII. 95. If yet this heart unwearied may bear on.

1871.  Jowett, Plato, II. 10. The unwearied and disinterested seeker after truth.

  b.  Of qualities, actions, conditions, etc.: Marked by absence of abatement; unremitting.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 8 b. He … cesseth not to shewe hys vnweried bountifulnesse vpon miserable sinners.

1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., I. iii. § 2. [The sun] as a Giant doth runne his vnwearied course.

1625.  Godwin, Moses & Aaron (1641), A 2 b. An unwearied assiduity in perusing those sacred Oracles.

1678.  Vaughan, Thalia Rediv., 64. The Wisdom of the Bee, And her unwearied Industry.

1704.  J. Trapp, Abra-Mulé, II. i. 367. Had not my Care, My vigilant, unweary’d Diligence Still balk’d … the Visier’s Conduct.

1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. iii. The ludicrous mixture of groups kept her attention unwearied.

1820.  Scott, Monast., vi. The active and unwearied exercise of his sharp and piercing intellect.

1861.  Trench, Comm. Ep. Churches Asia, 69. The unwearied activity of Christ in his Church.

1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., II. xxx. 259. Bond … languidly thanked him for his faithful and unwearied exertions.