unslipping

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ slipping

Adjective[edit]

unslipping (not comparable)

  1. That does not slip.
    • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
      To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
      With an unslipping knot, take Anthony
      Octavia to his wife, whose beauty claims
      No worse a husband than the best of men.