Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to be wearied.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being wearied or tired out.
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- adjective Easily
tired orwearied ; capable of beingfatigued .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging.
Kamikaze Birdsongs 2010
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He doesn't get tired of telling the truth – which explains his in-defatigable nature.
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Louis XIthat in defatigable workman, who commenced on so large a scale the demolition of the feudal edifice, continued by Richelieu and Louis XIV to the advantage of royalty, and completed by Mirabeau to the advantage of the peopleLouis XI had done his utmost to break up this network of seigneuries which covered Paris, by casting violently athwart it two or three ordinances of general police.
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It is withal an in defatigable teller and hearer of base stories.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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"I did honor to my corps (at least) by keeping an open table during the Rebellion, when provisions were so excessive scarce, an my house during it, the hospital for wounded officers, and my wife the matron from her in, defatigable attention."
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Major general Steuben, having under him the in - defatigable patriot and soldier general Nelson, had by this time drawn together a considerable body of militia, inconsequence of the exertion of the governor.
Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States 1812
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