"unreturning" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: From un- + returning. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|returning}} un- + returning Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unreturning (not comparable)
  1. Not returning; not coming back. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: unreturningly Related terms: return
    Sense id: en-unreturning-en-adj-GxSMM-Xn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un-

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          "ref": "1842, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tomb of a Young Friend at Mount Auburn, page 34",
          "text": "So, thou hast pass'd the unreturning gate,\nWhere dust with dust doth linger, and gone down\nIn all the beauty of thy blooming years\nTo this most sacred city of the dead.",
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          "ref": "1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Dedication, page 4",
          "text": "For gifts that die have living memories—\nVoices of unreturning days, that breathe\nThe spirit of a day that never dies.",
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