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unexˈtinguishable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
= inextinguishable a. a. Of fire or flame (also fig. and transf.).
1642Forerunner of Rev. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 274 The duke's fire of his anger and fury being unextinguishable. 1654Cokaine Dianea iv. 351 Perceiving the flames unextinguishable, and defence impossible. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 169 There, all unquench'd by cruel fortune's ire, It glows with unextinguishable fire. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 375 We see the arrow with the unextinguishable fire, ready to be discharged.
b. Of feelings, qualities, actions, etc.
1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 156 A ground of unconquerable comfort, and unextinguishable joy. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 14, I must repeat, That this Earnestness..is an unextinguishable Desire. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 52 The people's inseparable and unextinguishable share in the legislative power. 1815J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 143 The ardent and unextinguishable zeal of female character. 1873Mozley Univ. Serm. (1876) 201 The doctrine which..declares most unextinguishable war with materialistic ideas of the Deity.
c. Of laughter. (After the Homeric ἄσβεστος γέλως, Iliad i. 599, Odyss. viii. 326.)
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 42 That famous network of Vulcan, which..caused that unextinguishable laugh in heaven. 1801M. Edgeworth Angelina iii, The milliner..burst into uncontrollable and..unextinguishable laughter. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets iii. ⁋5 That unextinguishable laughter which is the laughter of gods or poets.
Hence unexˈtinguishableness; -ably adv.
a1660Hammond Hell Torments i. Wks. 1684 I. 615 So the Unextinguishableness of the one must be answered with the durableness of the other. 1775Johnson, Unquenchableness, unextinguishableness. 1779― L.P., Hammond, Hammond..was unextinguishably amorous, and his mistress inexorably cruel. |