▪ I. unreˈwarding, vbl. n.
(un-1 13.)
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia iii. xiv, It was the unrewarding, & not the evil employing her service, which grieved her. |
▪ II. unreˈwarding, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
| 1653 Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xix. 255 He findes it an unrewarding interest, to walk seven dayes..only to see a place from whence he must come back in an hour. 1854 Lever Dodd Family Abroad lxx. 592 [It] is a very unrewarding process. 1882 Myers Renewal of Youth 120 [To] come bootless back from the unrewarding quest. |