unreturningly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From unreturning + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
unreturningly (not comparable)
- Without returning or coming back.
- 1818 August, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 36:
- What seeks he? All that others seek / He casts away, like a vile weed / Which the sea casts unreturningly.