unraining

English

Adjective

unraining

1. Not raining.
   • 1876, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies, page 370:

     The festivities lasted four or five days, beneath a solemn but unraining November cloud, which afforded an artistic background to the fluttering miles of painted bunting which gaudily draped the sombre town.

   • 1924, Virgil, translated by ?, Virgil: the Georgics: Partly in the Original and Partly in Translation, page 55:

     ... and scatters the storms and unraining clouds of Scythia; then the tall corn and the stretches of water quiver with the first gentle blasts, and the tops of the woods rustle and the long rollers press towards the beach; but […]

   • 1988 January 1, Charles Dillard Collins, Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta, The, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     Like an unraining cloud, like an ocean without waves: as he held his breath in yoga, he seemed to be a lamp unwavering without a breath of wind.

   • 2016 January 18, Stuart Evers, Your Father Sends His Love: Stories, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

     Stock-image lapwings and stock-image grebes were added to cloudless, unraining skies; and in driveways stock-image residents unpacked groceries from their stock-image cars. Mostly though there were houses. Hundreds of them;  […]