UNREMITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unremitting mean? 

• UNREMITTING (adjective)
  The adjective UNREMITTING has 1 sense:

1. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

  Familiarity information: UNREMITTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNREMITTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

Synonyms:

ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting

Context example:

unremitting demands of hunger

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

 Context examples 

However, they brought her through it by unremitting and affectionate attention; and we were married yesterday six weeks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tuesday was a day of similar unremitting toil.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He compelled them to an unremitting respect for him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But I was in reality very ill, and surely nothing but the unbounded and unremitting attentions of my friend could have restored me to life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The repose of the latter became more and more disturbed; and her sister, who watched, with unremitting attention her continual change of posture, and heard the frequent but inarticulate sounds of complaint which passed her lips, was almost wishing to rouse her from so painful a slumber, when Marianne, suddenly awakened by some accidental noise in the house, started hastily up, and, with feverish wildness, cried out,—Is mama coming?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)