unwandering

English

Etymology

un- + wandering

Adjective

unwandering (comparative more unwandering, superlative most unwandering)

  1. Not wandering.
    • 1903, Nancy Huston Banks, Round Anvil Rock:
      When they are permitted to reach any height from which to look down, the terrible craving appears to be temporarily appeased; and they become kind, and even generous, to all who look up with willing, unwandering gaze.
    • 1906, David Graham Phillips, The Second Generation:
      Dawson--lean and keen, tough and brown of skin, and so carelessly dressed that he looked as if he slept in his clothes--listened with the sympathetic, unwandering attention which men give only him who comes telling where and how they can make money.
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