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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unwavering
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fixed/unwavering/unblinking stare (=with your eyes not moving at all)
▪ His unwavering stare was making me feel pretty uneasy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Miller is unwavering in her support of the governor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But for his weakness and vacillation, peasant unrest and working-class militancy could have been kept in check by efficient and unwavering repression.
▪ Her clear gaze is unwavering and steady.
▪ His policy was consistent, unwavering, conservative.
▪ His son, Francis, was munching away, his protuberant eyes fixed on his father in an unwavering stare.
▪ His voice, too, was as sincere, as unwavering and self-assured as ever.
▪ Hitch kept his eyes on Carol; by this time, she was beginning to feel uneasy under his almost unwavering stare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unwavering

1560s, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of waver (v.).

Wiktionary
unwavering

a. Never doubted; always steady and on course

WordNet
unwavering
  1. adj. marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable]

  2. not showing abrupt variations; "spoke in a level voice"; "she gave him a level look"- Louis Auchincloss [syn: level]

Usage examples of "unwavering".

Now it was a poster on the wall, an admonition to wear seat belts, that demanded her unwavering gaze.

She strode across the floor toward Cece, her glare icy and her gaze unwavering.

The true Mason, sincerely holding that a Supreme God created and governs this world, believes also that He governs it by laws, which, though wise, just, and beneficent, are yet steady, unwavering, inexorable.

Page Lee Hufty, who has been steadfast and unwavering in her love and support of me and this book, I express my deepest gratitude.

Tangs would have made Lianne laugh, but the look in Kyles unwavering eyes took the humor right out of the situation.

The smoke rose from the chimney of the small drawing-room at Mapes Court in a tall, unwavering plume, a hundred feet before its head drifted away in a blue mist to lie in the hollows of the downs behind the house.

Ingolin the Wise, who had watched the Sundering of the world, stood unwavering.

The baronet told her this, adding that the youth had done it in a cold unwavering way, without a movement of his features: had evidently done it to throw off the burden of the duty, he had conceived.

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One could wax poetic about a good leader or a powerful team dog, but let a dog be or become uncompetitive and one was to sell it, part with it, or do away with it in an unwavering fashion.

There was a quiet, understated sense of menace in their unwavering self-possession, as though no one and nothing in the world could ever disturb their privileged world.

She turned from the unwavering gaze of the chacmool and studied the tour group.

But I, like all the Chinese people, had given Chairman Mao and his government our unwavering support for many, many years.

Better than any type of conceptualization, the quotations revealed an unsuspected and unwavering line of action that don Juan had followed in order to promote and facilitate my entrance into his world.

Le Jeu du Prochain Train was itself substantially simpler than 5 in Phelps and Phelps, The Cults of the Unwavering I: A Field Guide to Cults of Currency Speculation, Melanin, Fitness, Bioflavinoids, Spectation, Assassination, Stasis, Property, Agoraphobia, Repute, Celebrity, Acraphobia, Performance, Amway, Fame, Infamy, Deformity, Scopophobia, Syntax, Consumer Technology, Scopophilia, Presleyism, Hunterism, Inner Children, Eros, Xenophobia, Surgical Enhancement, Motivational Rhetoric, Chronic Pain, Solipsism, Survivalism, Preterition, Anti-Abortionism, Kevorkianism, Allergy, Albinism, Sport, Chiliasm, and Telentertainment in pre-O.