undebating

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ debating

Adjective[edit]

undebating (not comparable)

  1. Not engaging in debate.
    • 1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The Manor of Glenmore: Or, The Irish Peasant, volume 1, page 71:
      Francis French had brought his fair cousin, to be, as is our masculinely dominant custom, an undebating, undining spectator of the scene, while he himself became an active participator in both the viands and the discourse.
    • 1967, The Pakistan Review, page 45:
      Only a man with an undebating mind, with a positive cause and belief can afford to rush forward to meet his destiny in that heroically galvanic fashion as did Sagheer at the Wagah Sector.