单词 | unrelaxable |
释义 | unrelaxableadj. That cannot or must not be relaxed. ΘΚΠ society > law > [adjective] > various epithets applied to laws vagabondc1485 strait1503 strict1578 unrelaxable1615 sanguinary1625 standard1660 formal1701 supplementary1714 eludible1735 organic1831 antinomic1849 loopy1856 antinomical1877 contravenable1880 violable1885 nexal1886 entrenched1920 hard1935 1615 J. H. This Worlds Folly sig. C3 There must you languish in torments vnrelaxable: there must you frie and freeze in one selfe-furnace. 1692 W. H. tr. H. Grotius Def. Catholick Faith iii. 82 For there are some Laws unrelaxable, either absolutely or upon Conditition [sic]. 1842 J. Banim & M. Banim Father Connell I. xii. 254 The cold blooded resoluteness of his marbly lips unrelaxable. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 36 These pre-Raphaelite laws..are unrelaxed yet, and unrelaxable for ever. 1920 Hearst's Mar. 62/3 Along with his faith in monopoly came a belief in the unalienable privilege and unrelaxable grip of the bondholders. 1987 T. Eagleton in Salmagundi Winter 30 The contradiction..can be rephrased as an unrelaxable tension between too much meaning and too little. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1615 |
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