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Un ought never to be prefixed to a participle present to mark a forbearance of action, as unsighing, but a privation of habit, as unpitying.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

Without the tax That age doth levy, on the eye or ear, Movement of limbs, or social sympathies, In sweet retirement of domestic joy His calm, unshadow'd pilgrimage was closed By an unsighing transit.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard