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Etymology

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From unblinking +‎ -ly.

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unblinkingly (not comparable)

  1. Without blinking.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 207:
      Unblinkingly the girl kept her first vigil.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 105:
      She stood this inspection unblinkingly, incapable of the little insincerities of self-consciousness, but when it was over, and Bradly had resumed his normal face, she gave a relieved wriggle, as if satisfied by an ordeal which obviously satisfied Bradly, for he said with approval, "Comes well, that hat; paint you in that hat; picks up reflected lights a treat, that hat."
    • 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
      To restore investor confidence, Lula installed an unblinkingly orthodox economic team at the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance, which hiked interest rates yet further and cut public investment, to achieve a primary fiscal surplus higher even than the figure the IMF had demanded.

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