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immitigable, a.|ɪˈmɪtɪgəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. immītigābilis, f. im- (im-2) + mitigābilis mitigable.]
That cannot be mitigated, softened, or appeased; implacable; not to be toned down.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 19 What cause was there..that the malice of my minde should be immitigable? 17..Harris (J.), Did she mitigate these immitigable, these iron⁓hearted men? 1814Southey Roderick xvii, He..on his flesh..inflicts Fierce vengeance with immitigable hand. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son III. 138 For four or five days and nights the pain was immitigable. 1887Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 188 The principle or the impulse of universal and immitigable charity.
Hence iˈmmitigably adv., in an immitigable manner or degree.
1824Westm. Rev. I. 437 The most unavoidably and immitigably painful incidents of life. 1832H. Martineau Each & All vii. 104 Mr. Bland looked as immitigably solemn as ever. 1854N. Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. II. 308 Much that is most valuable must be immitigably rejected. |