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Unfirm

adjective
1.
Not firmly or solidly positioned.  Synonym: unsteady.  "An unfirm stance"
2.
(of soil) unstable.  Synonym: shifting.  "Unfirm earth"






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"Unfirm" Quotes from Famous Books



... her waning light with borrowed rays. No globous earth pois'd inly by its weight, Hung pendent in the circumambient sky: The sky was not:—Nor Amphitrite had Clasp'd round the land her wide-encircling arms. Unfirm the earth, with water mix'd and air; Opaque the air; unfluid were the waves. Together clash'd the elements confus'd: Cold strove with heat, and moisture drought oppos'd; Light, heavy, hard, ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid



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