unquenched en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English quenched English unquenched From un- + quenched.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not quenched.
Oklahoma City's 1.2 million people had no professional sports team and the unquenched willingness to support one.
2009 January 6, Jonathan Abrams, “For Oklahoma City Thunder, Wins Don't Come, but Fans Do”, in New York Times:Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20: