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quenchless, a.|ˈkwɛnʃlɪs|
[f. as quenching vbl. n. + -less.]
That cannot be quenched; unquenchable, inextinguishable.
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 137 These hellish houndes, with paines of quenchlesse fyre. c1632Cowley Elegy Ld. Carleton, An angry Fever, Whose quenchless Thirst, by Blood was sated never. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 473 In faculties of endless growth, In quenchless passions. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xlii, Fire.., but once kindled, quenchless evermore. 1838W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. i. ii. 35 The Romances of Scott..have..piled quenchless fuel on this social flame. 1877C. Geikie Christ lvii. (1879) 691 A last sad look of quenchless pity. 1895Yeats Poems 12 And with quenchless eyes and fluttering hair A beautiful young man followed behind. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid iv. 78 And consecrated their quenchless flames. 1976New Yorker 15 Nov. 59/1 Vaccaro and Jack Smith, the underground filmmaker, shared a quenchless passion for ‘Siren of Atlantis’, ‘White Savage’, ‘Cobra Woman’, and other nineteen-forties epics starring Miss Montez.
Hence ˈquenchlessly adv.; ˈquenchlessness.
1594Kyd Cornelia v. 403 Sacred Temples quenchlessly enflam'd. 1848Craig, Quenchlessness. |