unextinguishedadj.
Not extinguished, quenched, or put out:
a. Of fire or light (also figurative).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > unquenchable or unquenched
unquenchedc1175
unquenchablea1382
unslockened1434
unsleakablec1475
quenchless1557
unextinguished1697
inextinguished1746
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 380 The Souls, whom that unhappy Flame invades..Lament too late, their unextinguish'd Fire.
1730 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 230 One of ye Candles..happen'd..to fall down unextinguish'd.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad viii. 241 The seeds of fire, Which unextinguish'd glow in ev'ry pyre.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Ded. p. xxxii Two tranquil stars..That burn from year to year with unextinguished light.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 175 The comet was already visible amid the unextinguished glow of twilight.
b. Of feelings, etc. (Cf. unextinguishable adj.)
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > not destroyed
undestroyeda1450
undissolved1535
unrooted?1545
unwracked1627
unextincta1640
unextirpated1663
unextinguished1700
unwrecked1775
unannihilated1797
unannihilate1804
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 150 If thou hast remaining in thy Heart Some Sense of Love, some unextinguish'd Part Of former Kindness.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad vii. 198 But burning still the unextinguish'd pain, The shore he left.
1800 S. T. Coleridge Talleyrand to Ld. Grenville in Morning Post 10 Jan. 3/1 Your merit self-conscious..keeps you up, Unextinguish'd and swoln.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. x. 331 There is conflict between the Holy Spirit..and our own unextinguished selfishness.
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