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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unshaken
adjective
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▪ It's a characterisation which always remains unshaken by the fact that Flaubert loathed the bourgeoisie.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unshaken

mid-15c., "not agitated," from un- (1) "not" + shaken. Meaning "not moved from a firm position" is recorded from 1540s.

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unshaken

a. Not shaken

WordNet
unshaken

adj. unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made" [syn: undaunted, undismayed]

Usage examples of "unshaken".

The human will stands unshaken before the ill winds of theistic persecution.

Pitched battles had been tried for nearly three years, and in victory or in defeat the Southern army seemed equally unshaken and dangerous.

Quivering in crimson fire, the peaks unshaken Of mountains and blue isles which did environ With air-clad crags that plain of land and sea,-- And feel .

I was impressed with the idea that to their unshaken friendship I owed all my good luck, and I made the father, mother, the daughter, and the two sons, receive the presents I had got for them.

But Aea abides unshaken even now and the sons of those men whom that king settled to dwell in Aea.

The thin line of soldiers, 150 of them covering a mile and a half of ground, endured a heavy shell and rifle fire with unshaken resolution, repulsed every attempt of the burghers, and held the flag flying until relieved by the forces under White and Bruce Hamilton.

Himalayas, endless nights in cemeteries, gravel pits, and hilltops everywhere, I have seen much and my childish sense of wonder remains unshaken.

Both Gregorius and Sara spoke to him at great length, trying to explain his error, and he nodded and grinned benevolently at them but remained completely unshaken in his conviction, and ended by embracing Gareth Swales, making a long rambling speech in Amharic, hailing him as an Englishman and a comrade in arms.

His dedication to the Nazi ideal remained unshaken by the events of 1945, and this, coupled with his former eminence, secured him a high and honored place among the fugitive Nazis of Argentina, from whence the Odessa was ruled.

She smoothed out the first sheet carefully on the lid of her writing case, dipped her pen in the remaining half inch of India ink and headed the sheet with a hand that was calm and unshaken.

For thus will he be able to remain one and the same and unshaken, the single eye of his desire being steadfastly fixed, through the manifold changes of the world, upon Me.

Destroyer of Vordarian's Pretendership, engineer of the peculiar victory of the third Cetagandan war, unshaken tiger-rider of Barrayar's murderous internecine politics for the past two decades.

And Ben Stowe, solid, unshaken, still sat his throne in the center of the community.