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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unyielding
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even his supporters admit that he is selfish and unyielding.
▪ the unyielding mountainous terrain
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actually, the way helical molecules pack together is not of great interest because their structures are too rigidly determined and unyielding.
▪ I stared at his unyielding face, then I let Wally take my arm and move me toward Gracie Mansion.
▪ That piercing gaze threatened immediate reprisal, the tough, unyielding stance of his hard body blocked her path and intimidated her.
▪ The blue eyes which held his were glacial and unyielding.
▪ Willis was a perfect choice: arrogant, authoritarian, unyielding, capable of offending and alienating anyone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unyielding

1590s of persons; 1650s, of substances; from un- (1) "not" + yielding (see yield (v.)).

Wiktionary
unyielding

a. Not give in; not bending; stubborn.

WordNet
unyielding
  1. adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious]

  2. refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination"

  3. having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute [syn: flinty, granitic]

Usage examples of "unyielding".

Who understood everything which had happened to her and continued the fight with all the unyielding courage he loved and admired so much, refusing to surrender to the freak cataclysm which had exploded into her life.

The satchel charge held twenty pounds of plastique, confined between the forty-four ton weight of the tank and the unyielding ground.

Harry, finding the groin area of the automaton untraditionally hard and unyielding.

Repeated collisions with those huge, unyielding limbs on the way down would have demolished her miniature airplane like a balsa model.

And in that deep form, the mystics of the world are in virtually unanimous and unyielding agreement, and this on the basis of their experiential evidence disclosed and discussed in a community of intersubjective interpreters.

The tissues are destroyed, and, as the parts heal, the deeper-seated tissues firmly contract, forming a hard, unyielding cicatrix, thus constricting the neck of the womb, through which the menses pass into the vagina.

Wine-red heather and glowing golden gorse and great armadas of cloud sailing serenely overhead, while mountainy men struggled with all their might to wring bare subsistence from unyielding earth.

Learn, oh presumptuous mortal, that sacred and unyielding chastity is invulnerable to all the violence of men, and all the stratagems of goblins.

The discomfited Stossen expedition, returning in recriminatory but otherwise orderly retreat from the unyielding obstacle of the locked door, came to a sudden halt at the gate dividing the paddock from the gooseberry garden.

Suppliant of Sartor of the Many Aspects am I, a servant unyielding, subduing the lands of His foes.

I name it Asp son of Vitrus son of Hanrab, the proclaimer of Sartor, the worshiper of Sartor, the exalter of Sartor, a servant unyielding, King of all Chal!

Unyielding and undiscouraged they have stood, for close on three years, in winter and in summer, in heat and in cold, in snow and in rain, holding the frontier of civilization.

She beat soundlessly with the end of the buttonhook against the unyielding white plane.

The unyielding, aggressive way Aejys handled Cedarbird, reflected this.

And here is the plain of Doeas, and near are the three cities of the Amazons, and after them the Chalybes, most wretched of men, possess a soil rugged and unyielding sons of toil, they busy themselves with working iron.