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Definition of Inextinguishable
1. Adjective. Difficult or impossible to extinguish. "An inextinguishable faith"
Definition of Inextinguishable
1. a. Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds.
Definition of Inextinguishable
1. Adjective. Incapable of being extinguished ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inextinguishable
Literary usage of Inextinguishable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... accede ad hunc ignem, &c., an inextinguishable fire. 6 " alitur et crescit
malum, Et ardet intus, ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... a grievous wound is love still, and a lover's heart is Cupid's quiver, a
consuming *fire, 4 accede ad hunc ignem, &c., an inextinguishable fire. ..."
3. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"Although inextinguishable aversion to England may still rankle in the bosoms of
a portion of the American population, a great majority of the best yearn ..."
4. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Vast Billows of inextinguishable Flame.—Upwards of Two Thousand Acres, or
Seventy-three Miles of Streets, with 17450 Buildings, Destroyed: Loss, ..."
5. Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines by S. Pollock Linn (1909)
"LIGHT inextinguishable. MYRIAD deadly blows have been aimed at the very heart of
the Gospel, but every thrust has been parried, and the religion of Jesus ..."
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