unmisgiving

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ misgiving

Adjective[edit]

unmisgiving (comparative more unmisgiving, superlative most unmisgiving)

  1. Without misgivings.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
      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.