unextinguishableadj.
= inextinguishable adj.
a. Of fire or flame (also figurative and transferred).
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > affected with passion or strong emotion > uncontrollable or irrepressible (of passions)
inexpiable1598
irreclaimable1609
stanchless1612
unextinguishable1642
ungovernable1676
unconquerable1727
quenchless1744
unsurmountable1771
1642 G. Eglisham Fore-runner of Revenge (new ed.) 10 The Dukes fire of his anger, being unextinguishable.
1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iv. 351 Perceiving the flames unextinguishable, and defence impossible.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) iii. 107 There, all unquench'd by cruel fortune's ire, It glows with unextinguishable fire.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 375 We see the arrow with the unextinguishable fire, ready to be discharged.
b. Of feelings, qualities, actions, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > not destroyed > indestructible
unquenchablea1382
inextinguible1412
undestroyablea1420
surec1475
inextinguishable1509
undelible1534
unperishable1538
irrefragable1562
inconsumptible1579
inquenchable1583
undefaceable1587
irrefringible1596
insuppressible1610
irrazable1622
unextinguishable1656
imperdible1660
indissolvable1660
indestructible1674
unannihilable1678
undestructible1807
undemolishable1837
unobliteratable1872
uneliminable1876
1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 156 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity A ground of unconquerable comfort, and unextinguishable joy.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 14 I must repeat, that this Earnestness..is an unextinguishable Desire.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 143 The people's inseparable and unextinguishable share in the legislative power.
1815 J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 143 The ardent and unextinguishable zeal of female character.
1873 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1876) 201 The doctrine which..declares most unextinguishable war with materialistic ideas of the Deity.
c. Of laughter. (After the Homeric ἄσβεστος γέλως, Iliad i. 599, Odyss. viii. 326.)
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [adjective] > inextinguishable (of laughter)
unextinguishable1658
inextinguishable1791
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 110 That famous network of Vulcan, which..caused that unextinguishable laugh in heaven.
1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iii, in Moral Tales II. 58 The milliner..burst into uncontrollable and..unextinguishable laughter.
1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) iii. ⁋5 That unextinguishable laughter which is the laughter of gods or poets.
Derivatives
unexˈtinguishableness n.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > capability of being destroyed > indestructibility
unperishableness1648
unextinguishablenessa1660
indestructibility1671
indestructibleness1844
a1660 H. Hammond Hell Torments i, in Wks. (1684) I. 615 So the Unextinguishableness of the one must be answered with the durableness of the other.
1775 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Unquenchableness Unextinguishableness.
unexˈtinguishably adv.
ΚΠ
1781 S. Johnson Hammond in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IX. 3 Hammond..was unextinguishably amorous, and his mistress inexorably cruel.
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