setting
noun
the act of a person or thing that sets.
unsetting
-
a word derived from
setting.
Example Sentences
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But so breathtaking were the streets that late afternoon, with their sentinel trees and tender gardens, that the sun itself seemed to waver, unsetting, reluctant to leave; it was the onlooker whose presence weighted everything.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Through all the hours of my imprisonment I had learnt to look forward through the darkness of my nearer future to the day of my liberation as to a bright unsetting star.
From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Frank Henderson
Look up to the unsetting light of the Eternal life on the throne of the universe, and see bathed in it the living dead in Christ!
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
And while the unsetting sun shines on Through the still heaven's deep blue, We'll traverse the azure waves, the herds Of the dread sea horse to view.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
Either 'Let the unknown to-morrow Bring with it what it may,' or look beyond the last of the days into the unseen light of an unsetting sun.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
