Unbending

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Unbend
2. a. Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; — applied to material things.
3. a. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; — applied to persons.
4. a. Unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; — applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.