unaˈbated, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| ? a 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Four Plays in One Wks. 1912 X. 296 Behold a princess..playing here the slave, To keep her husbands greatness unabated. 1676 Hobbes Iliad xix. 295, I think yet Another time for Feast had better been;..whilst yet unabated is my Spleen. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. (1787) III. 194 The king of the Goths..still advanced with unabated vigour. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. 393 Mrs. Arlbery felt provoked to find his power thus unabated. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxv, For three days and three nights the gale continued with unabated fury. 1857 Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 456 For nearly fifty years the movement has continued with unabated speed. |
Hence unaˈbatedly adv.
| 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 132 They chaunting unabatedly her extreme deficiency in personal charms. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 27 July 5/1 The war would be carried on unabatedly until something more tangible in the way of terms was proposed. |