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unaˈppeasable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
That cannot be appeased or placated; implacable, insatiable: a. Of feelings, activities, etc.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. vii. (1634) 158 They presse us, I say, and doe pursue us with an unappeasable rigour. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxiv. 1 He..burned against him with unappeasable hatred. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 407 Such unappeasable contention and brawlyng about the mainteynaunce of Purgatory. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. 360 They pursued such vnapeasable and tyrannous warre that [etc.]. 1671Milton Samson 963 Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages, Eternal tempest never to be calm'd. 1779Johnson L.P., Addison ⁋37 The author..wandered..behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude. 1822Lamb Elia i. Artif. Comedy, The eternal tormenting unappeasable vigilance..of present fashionable tragedy. 1845Hamilton Pop. Educ. ix. (ed. 2) 256 The ambition of the Papal See is unappeasable. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 292 The unappeasable apprehension of a German for his biographer.
b. Of persons (or other agents).
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 574 There is no faith in a hard, stubborne, and vnappeasable man. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 543 Set thyself in our defence against this our unappeasable adversary. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. 31 The turbulent, and vnappeaceable Dutchesse of Burgundy. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 26 [They are] so vnappeasable in anger, that they cowardly murther their enemies. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 234 With envious Rage I saw them swell, All unappeasable as Hell. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xliii, A real live furious and most unappeasable Saracen. 1872M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. ix. 183 One makes it a vast machine, moving blindly in an unalterable groove, driven by an unappeasable fate.
Hence unaˈppeasableness, -ably adv.
1611Florio, Implacabilita, vnappeasablenesse. [Also in Bailey and Ash.] 1647Hexham i, Vnappeasably, onversoenelicken. 1837Lytton Athens II. 310 Those twin rocks..between which the sea..roars unappeasably through its mists of foam. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. v. (1872) X. 63 He grieves unappeasably to have lost Friedrich. 1871Lowell Stud. Wind. (1886) 129 He is pertinaciously and unappeasably dull. |