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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unflagging
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her unflagging ambition more than made up for her lack of education.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As such, he had shown unflagging support for the Axis cause.
▪ Dating from 1911 they not only show how he moved towards complete abstraction but also his unflagging inventiveness.
▪ In practice brute consistency breeds believability and it's unflagging consistency that convinces others of personal commitment.
▪ The sound of his unflagging footsteps was his only company.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unflagging

1715, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of flag (v.). Related: Unflaggingly.

Wiktionary
unflagging

a. Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.

WordNet
unflagging
  1. adj. showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; "an indefatigable advocate of equal rights"; "a tireless worker"; "unflagging pursuit of excellence" [syn: indefatigable, tireless, unwearying]

  2. unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy" [syn: unfailing]

Usage examples of "unflagging".

He showed himself always assiduous with Madame de Maintenon, who, by her animated and unflagging talk, had the very profitable secret of keeping him amused.

But she said little of her own unflagging attention to the ailing sisters in the infirmary, or how her omnicompetence positioned her as a likely candidate to become mother abbess.

She even got along with Hawkins, who could outtalk and outshout any demagogue but who was utterly baffled by her unflagging concern.

This is one of the most common criticisms on our social state by a certain class of writers in England, who take an unflagging interest in our development.

The blue eyes of de Marbot and Behn, however, seemed to shine with an unflagging light.

Years after I was benched in the matter first for social reasons, the fact that an old man looks a fool if he behaves like a young stud, and later through illness and physical incapacity-years after I was benched my interest in a pretty face or a pretty leg was unflagging.

Years after I was benched in the matter first for social reasons, the fact that an old man looks a fool if he behaves like a young stud, and later through illness and physical incapacity—years after I was benched my interest in a pretty face or a pretty leg was unflagging.

Then he flung the door violently inward against the doorstop with one of those gestures with or by which an almost painfully unflagging pre-ceptory of youth ultimately aberrates, and stood there saying, "Bayard.

The book, the statue, the sonata, must be gone upon with the unreasoning good faith and the unflagging spirit of children at their play.

With unflagging grace and good humor, they pitched in wherever they were needed, doing whatever had to be done to keep the home fires burning and the dragons at bay.

He compensated for these deficiencies with typically unflagging otterish energy.

It was generally acknowledged that whatever Pena lacked in brains was more than made up for by his brute strength, stubborn tenacity, and unflagging loyalty to his Capo.

Among much other interesting matter, that which I had perused and reperused with unflagging satisfaction, was a short dialogue between a master and his slave.