[go: up one dir, main page]

Jump to content

undining

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From un- +‎ dining.

Adjective

[edit]

undining (not comparable)

  1. That does not dine.
    • 1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The Manor of Glenmore: Or, The Irish Peasant, volume 1, page 71:
      Francis French had brought his fair cousin, to be, as is our masculinely dominant custom, an undebating, undining spectator of the scene, while he himself became an active participator in both the viands and the discourse.
    • 1845, Richard Ford, John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, page 725:
      [] as the whole art of diplomacy is centred in the kitchen, it never can come fully into play in an undining city []