Unhealing

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of unheal form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    That does not heal. not-comparable

    "Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh."

Example

More examples

"Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh."

Etymology

From un- + healing.

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