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immitigable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ɪˈmɪtɪɡəbəl/ (US)

Etymology

From im- + mitigable.

Meanings

1. That cannot be mitigated
   • "[…] 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−" 1949, Peter de Vries, chapter 13, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, published 1978, page 149:
   • "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. […]" 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter XXXIX, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 81:
   • He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge. 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:

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Deriveds

immitigably