The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbending \Un*bend"ing\, a. [In senses 1, 2, and 3, pref. un- not + bending; in sense 4, properly p. pr. unbend.]
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Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main.
--Pope. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.
Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths.
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Devoted to relaxation or amusement. [R.]
It may entertain your lordships at an unbending hour.
--Rowe. [1913 Webster] -- Un*bend"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*bend"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being unbending.
Usage examples of "unbendingness".
The enclosed, boiling circumstances of his captivity, at once intimate and distant, made Saladin Chamcha want to argue with the woman, unbendingness can also be monomania, he wanted to say, it can be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.