| 单词 | inextinguishable |
| 释义 | inextinguishable, a.|ɪnɛkˈstɪŋgwɪʃəb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + extinguishable.]
That cannot be extinguished (in various senses of the verb); unquenchable, indestructible, etc.
In ‘inextinguishable laughter’, an echo of the Homeric ἄσβεστος γέλως, Iliad i. 599.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xlv. (Percy Soc.) 218 In heaven and hell I am continually Withouten ende to be inextinguissible. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. iv. 40 And to shew his inextinguishable light and heat they used to maintain a perpetual fire upon their altars. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 217 So..together rush'd Both Battels maine, with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 739 Heav'n rang with laughter inextinguishable. 1815Scott Guy M. ii, The efforts of the professor..were totally inadequate to restrain the inextinguishable laughter of the students. 1816Southey in Q. Rev. XVI. 239 An impulse of..the most inextinguishable hope was excited in every heart. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. (1860) 387 What an inextinguishable titter that time spared not celestial visages. 1861Maine Anc. Law v. (1876) 126 Primitive law considers the..family groups, as perpetual and inextinguishable.
Hence inexˈtinguishableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727); inexˈtinguishably adv.
1821Shelley Epipsych. 82 The Moon Burns, inextinguishably beautiful. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 464/2 She burst out crying inextinguishably. |
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