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unˈsetting, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
†1. Unbecoming, unfitting. Obs.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. B ij, I will tell them..what doth becom, and what unsetting is. a1598Rollock 1 Thess. (1606) 183 Any thing that is vnsetting, or vnseemlie to this Christian calling.
2. Not going beneath the horizon.
1607Merry Devil Edmonton iii. ii. 101 Thou bright vnsetting star..! 1819Crabbe T. of Hall xix. 543 Some spoke of wonders they before had seen, When on their travels..: How they beheld for months th' unsetting sun. 1844Lowell Prometheus 230, I Shall be a power and a memory,..a light Unsetting as the pole-star. 1869McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. viii. 132 The full light of the unsetting Sun.
fig.1838Mrs. Browning An Island xxvii, The undim Unsetting Godlight. |
