stoop
verb (used without object)
to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position.
unstooping
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a word derived from
stoop.
Example Sentences
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And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Then in her fortitude she wears the crested and unstooping hemlet;** and lastly, in her temperance, she is the queen of maidenhood—stainless as the air of heaven.
From The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin
Odysseus embodies the virtue of temperance and patience symbolized by the cloudless sky, represented by Athena’s robe, and of perseverance shown by her unstooping helmet.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
But "there it stands, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd".
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin
