Unmisgiving

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without misgivings.

    "A little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race."

Example

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"A little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race."

Etymology

From un- + misgiving.

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