uncapitulating
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + capitulating.
Adjective
[edit]uncapitulating (comparative more uncapitulating, superlative most uncapitulating)
- Not capitulating.
- 1869, I Plimsott, The Temptation of Christ:
- ...Beholding frail mortality thus waging / A deadly, uncapitulating strife / With the most powerful of created beings...
- 1919, Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, Little Mother America:
- His lips were compressed into thin, uncapitulating lines, giving him the look of a creature unconquered, secretly chafing...