immitigable
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[edit]immitigable (comparative more immitigable, superlative most immitigable)
- That cannot be mitigated
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
- 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter XXXIX, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography[1], New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 81:
- "Oh, my dear son, the plague in this town is raging with immitigable violence, and I am always fancying you will come home infected with it. […] "
- 1949, Peter de Vries, chapter 13, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, published 1978, page 149:
- " […] Matter is running down and the universe itself will one day become extinct. An everlasting and immitigable nothingness, in the void of black and absolute−"