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Webster 1913 Edition


Immitigable

Im-mit′i-ga-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
immitigabilis
; fr. pref.
im-
not +
mitigare
to mitigate.]
Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.
Coleridge.

Webster 1828 Edition


Immitigable

IMMIT'IGABLE

,
Adj.
[in and mitigate.] That cannot be mitigated or appeased.

Definition 2024


immitigable

immitigable

English

Adjective

immitigable (comparative more immitigable, superlative most immitigable)

  1. That cannot be mitigated
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 41,
      He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
    • 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography, translated by John Addington Symonds, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, Chapter XXXIX, p. 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, The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, 1978, Chapter 13, p. 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−"