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unstinting

uns·tin·ting

UK/(ˌ)ʌnˈstɪntɪŋ/ US/ˌʌnˈstɪntɪŋ/ uncommon

adjective

1.

very generous

  • “distributed gifts with a lavish hand”
  • “the critics were lavish in their praise”
  • “a munificent gift”
  • “his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent”
  • “prodigal praise”
  • “unsparing generosity”
  • “his unstinted devotion”
  • “called for unstinting aid to Britain”
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Origin

From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + stint (“to be mean or sparing”) + -ing (suffix forming present participles of verbs), or un- + stinting (“mean, sparing”). Stint is derived from Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to assuage; to make dull; to stint”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan (“to make dull; to shorten”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną (“to make dull; to shorten”) and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to hit; to push”), probably influenced by Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

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