Citations:unfinal

Adjective: "not final; unresolved; inconclusive"

 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter I, Aristocracies:
 * Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible […]
 * 1997, Thomas Mallon, Dewey Defeats Truman, Vintage (2013), ISBN 9780345805560, page 329:
 * So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be.
 * 2013, Maria Grazia Nicolosi, "'And to defeat that shadow…he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation': Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances", in Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature (eds. Jean-Michel Ganteau & Susana Onega), Routledge (2013), ISBN 9780415661072, page 175:
 * This resistance, on the writer's part, could well account for his mildly enigmatic, unfinal and anti-climactic denouements, often narrativised as happy endings of sorts, without actually being felt to be so by the characters, not even ironically.