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单词 unalleviable
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unalleviableadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: un- prefix1, Latin alleviare , -ble suffix.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + post-classical Latin alleviare (see alleviate v.) + -ble suffix, probably after unalleviated adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unaˈlleviable.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > incapable of mitigation
immitigable1576
unassuageable1611
unalleviable1816
inassuageable1887
1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 15 232 It was vehement grief.., unalleviated..and..unalleviable.
1887 H. Drummond in G. A. Smith Life H. Drummond (1899) xi. 274 The thing that crushes is to look on silently at the unalleviable pain of those we love.
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