unthawing

unthawing

1. present participle of unthaw

unthawing (not comparable)

1. That does not thaw; eternally frozen.
   • ca 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Volume II, Anthropogenesis, pages 423—424:

     So early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from Norway via Iceland and Greenland, to the lands that at present surround Hudson's Bay.

   • 1914, Rhys Carpenter, The Sun-Thief: and other poems, page 6–7:

     What fairer home than Earth's eternal hill

     Paved with unthawing snow, lit with the sun's

     Unwinking lamp, […]

   • 1997, Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love, page 336:

     Although the women found the picture of Jack in spike heels irresistible, their own feet, half frozen, thawing and unthawing, stung with such fierce poignancy that their humor was invaded by sympathy, and nobody laughed. "Here I was, broke," Marlis went on. "Knocked up. Which I did not expect, but which I halfway treasured and half resented […] "