unfailing

[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. failing.] 1 Not liable to fail; incapable of being exhausted. "Hereby are we freed from the sense of the second death and the sting of the first, to the unfailing comfort of our souls." -Bp. Hall: Sermon at Higham, 1648. 2. Incapable of failing or mi ing its aim; unerring, sure. "Some god, propitious to the Trojan foe, Has, from my arm unfailing , struck the bow." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xv. 551. IMG:content-0107.png:[blocks in formation] He fled with mykelle pyn vnto the mountayn." Robert de Brunne , p. 191. 269 IMG:content-0108.png:[blocks in formation] *1. Not fair; not graceful, elegant, or neat. "Attour his belte his liarte lockes laie, Feltred unfaire , over fret with frostes hoore." Chaucer: Test. of Creseide. 2. Not honest; not impartial; using trick or artifice. "Sometimes they complain of me as very unfair to take an advantage of an opinion of theirs."- Water land : Works, iv. 53. 3. Not characterized by or founded on honesty, justice, or fairne ; dishonorable, fraudulent. "The new system which you propose would therefore evidently be unfair to the Crown." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. xviii. *un-fäir', v . t . [Pref. un- (2), and Eng. fair , v.] To deprive of fairne or beauty. "These hours will that unfair Which fairly doth excel." Shakesp.: Sonnet 5. un-fäir'-ly, adv. [Eng. unfair; -ly.] Not fairly; in an unfair manner. "If I have wrested your words to another sense than you designed them, or in any respect argued unfairly , I a ure you it was without design." - Butler: To Dr. Samuel Clarke , let. 1.