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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undying
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's eternal/undying gratitude (=used to emphasize how extremely grateful you are)
▪ The doctors who saved my daughter have my undying gratitude.
undying love (=love that does not stop)
▪ She and I swore undying love.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
devotion
▪ Trading on the name and our undying devotion, Carlton have revived Crossroads.
▪ He kept apologising to Nellie and swearing undying devotion to her.
▪ Ken's undying devotion to this club should be applauded by players, directors and supporters alike.
love
▪ One reader's St Valentine's Day post brought an interesting offer, but not of undying love and devotion.
▪ Once in the barn, Stewart felt obliged to follow through on the expedition by dramatically expressing undying love for Susan Mary.
▪ The promises of undying love, of daily thoughts.
▪ There had been no expression of undying love on the angular face she had come to love.
▪ She and I swore undying love.
▪ She wanted there to be a sunset and she wanted there to be the passion and the glory and the undying love.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
undying love
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He also has my undying respect and jealousy for having been fortunate enough to have been born and raised in Tucson.
▪ His only saving grace is his undying belief in the melodramatic.
▪ I have a huge amount of respect for him personally, and undying admiration for Greenpeace.
▪ Once in the barn, Stewart felt obliged to follow through on the expedition by dramatically expressing undying love for Susan Mary.
▪ One reader's St Valentine's Day post brought an interesting offer, but not of undying love and devotion.
▪ The atmosphere did not encourage reasonableness and undying camaraderie.
▪ Trading on the name and our undying devotion, Carlton have revived Crossroads.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undying

Undying \Un*dy"ing\, a. Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undying

c.1300, "immortal," from un- (1) "not" + present participle of die (v.). Figurative sense, of feelings, etc., is recorded from c.1765.

Wiktionary
undying
  1. permanent; never-ending; infinite v

  2. (en-present participleundie)

WordNet
undying

adj. never dying; "his undying fame" [syn: deathless]

Usage examples of "undying".

Both exhibit a fierce pride, a drive toward masochistic self-abasement, and an undying hatred of their persecutors and oppressors.

The talk was fine and amiable, the ale flowed freely, and we spent the evening pledging and repledging our undying friendship to one another.

The second, amid undying curry aroma, provides shashlik and fried sausages.

Yet, unbleeding and undying, it struggled to reach him, and he must needs chop and chop again, hacking the monstrous thing apart.

I see the Ujihadda crawl to lick the toes of the undying and remember a forest boy not-quite-crawling to lick hurry-hurry toes and I see the Kwichi-jai dance in the street come rain-blow or bluest sky.

Cloudless was the day, and the air clean and sweet, and every nook and cranny was clear to behold from where they stood: there were great jutting nesses with straight-walled burgs at their top-most, and pyramids and pinnacles that no hand of man had fashioned, and awful clefts like long streets in the city of the giants who wrought the world, and high above all the undying snow that looked as if the sky had come down on to the mountains and they were upholding it as a roof.

Peter really should speak to mummy and arrange a firm date, Peter professing undying love but evading her matrimonial hints, Harris gently eased his aching shoulders, then moved his head out of the puddle left by the girl.

First Descended had come down onto the Lakht, the Ila, undying and eternal, had divided men from beasts, and beasts from vermin: afterward the world and its order was ruled by the god, the single god, and administered by the Ila and her priests.

World State of the Modern Utopist will, in its economic aspect, be a compendium of established economic experience, about which individual enterprise will be continually experimenting, either to fail and pass, or to succeed and at last become incorporated with the undying organism of the World State.

Derian had told her that the Waterlanders believed that the stars held the undying spirits of all who had walked on the earth.

But he who offers up a sacrifice to the undying, shining, swift-horsed sun, he will withstand darkness, and the devas, and that death which creeps in unseen .

The native Shiburri went about their lives in the shadow of the domes, always conscious of the undying, a consciousness that seemed to intensify all emotions, all struggles, all relationships.

Loguisse and the other Vrya had lived here, even sketchier when it came to the hapless Vrithli used by the undying as toys to enliven the endless march of days.

Attaleia announced its undying loyalty and gave Pompey twelve neat and seaworthy triremes together with a letter from his son Gnaeus, still on the island of Corcyra.

In another part of the archducal hall, Milo of Moraionce Undying God of the Horseclans, now Undying High Lord of the Confederation, by his own reckoning, at least eight hundred years oldsipped wine and chatted with the three newest-found of his rare, mutant strain.