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unˈquenchable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable: a. Of fire. (Also fig.)
1382Wyclif Matt. iii. 12 Chaffis he shal brenne with fyr unquenchable. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lxiii. 147 Þei þat..brennen in an unquenchable fire of charite. 1535Coverdale Luke iii. 17 He..shal burne the chaffe with vn⁓quencheable fyre. 1565J. Calfhill Answ. Martiall's Treat. Cross To Rdr. 2 To burne in hell wyth flames vnquenchable. 1627Hakewill Apol. iv. xiv. §4. 462 That [fire] burneth eternally without feeding, and is vnquenchable. 1652Vaughan Mount of Olives Wks. 1914 I. 169 Those furious and unquenchable burnings of hell (which the Scripture calls the lake of fire, &c.). 1741–2Gray Agrippina 128 The spark Unquenchable, that glows within their breasts. 1791Cowper Iliad xvii. 107 Fierce as Vulcan's fire Unquenchable. 1811Lamb Genius of Hogarth Wks. 1908 I. 106 Her unquenchable spark is not utterly out. 1825Macaulay Ess., Milton ⁋50 Those mighty principles..have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed. 1870Bryant Iliad xvi. II. 119 The eager enemy hurled the blazing brands.., and wrapped the stern in flames Unquenchable.
b. Of thirst, hunger, or greed.
1567Jewel Reply Harding 735 The Pope..beinge diseased..with an vnquencheable thirst of monie. 1577Holinshed Hist. Scot. I. 62/2 Hee was giuen to suche vnquenchable couetyse that nothing mighte suffice hym. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §5. 204 Thus vnquenchable is the thirst of ambition. 1723De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 186 By these things he raised an unquenchable thirst in me. 1795Southey Maid of Orleans ii. 71 Often impatiently to quench their thirst Unquenchable, large draughts of molten gold They drink insatiate. 1857Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xix. 273 The more unquenchable his hunger for the high and the good, the sooner will he find that out. 1901Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Eliz. x. 51 Her thirst for information is apparently unquenchable.
c. In other contexts. (Common in recent use.)
a1586Sidney Defence of Earl of Leicester Wks. 1923 III. 65 An evident proof of an unquencheable malice. 1671Milton Samson 1422 The people on thir Holy-days Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable. 1805Wordsw. Prelude i. 184 Firm devotion, zeal unquenchable. 1859Mill Liberty iv. 164 Polygamy..seems to excite unquenchable animosity when practised by persons who speak English. 1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 696/2 There is just the same unquenchable interest here.
Hence unˈquenchableness.
1627H. Burton Baiting Pope's Bull 63 Wee pray God, that wee neuer come to feele the fierie vnquenchablenesse of it. 1629in Hakewill Apol. (1630) Advts. Y y 4 b, Visiting him [sc. a bled man] I was amazed to see the vnquenchableness of this fire. |