unhealing
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unhealing (not comparable)
- That does not heal.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]unhealing
- present participle and gerund of unheal