Unyielding Definition & Meaning

unyielding
adjective
  1. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
  2. resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support"

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