wither
verb (used without object)
to shrivel; fade; decay.
unwithering
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a word derived from
wither.
Example Sentences
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The launch, she breathlessly announced, demonstrated the "unwithering power of our state."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2017
But He a little hath Declined His stately path And my Feet set more high; That the slack arm may reach His shoulder, and faint speech Stir His unwithering hair.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
Oh! the first Cook, in that ambrosial, unwithering Halcyon, rapturous, and honeymooning prime!—
From Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various
We wish to be where sweets unwithering bloom; But straight our wish revoke, and will not go.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
He represents the unwithering in the very home of corruption.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
