Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inextinguishable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inextinguishable.
Etymologies
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From Middle French inextinguible and its source, Latin inextinguibilis.
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Examples
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Douée d'un appétit de Gargantua, et brûlée sans doute d'une soif inextinguible, elle mangeait et buvait d'une façon prodigieuse.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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¿Con qué derecho queréis resucitar en su alma los fuegos fatuos de las vanidades de la tierra, cuando arde en su corazón la pira inextinguible de la caridad?
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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