Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inextinguishable manner; so as not to be extinguished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.
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- adverb In a way that cannot be
extinguished ;immortally .
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, in the darkness he does recognize a glow breaking inextinguishably from the door of the Law.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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But he recognizes now, in the darkness, an illumination which breaks inextinguishably out of the gateway to the law.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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One of the brilliant insights of the Founders was their recognition that human begins think and act tribally, almost on an inextinguishably instinctive level.
Archive 2006-02-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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One of the brilliant insights of the Founders was their recognition that human begins think and act tribally, almost on an inextinguishably instinctive level.
Posting today Glenn Greenwald 2006
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Flamboyantly smoking cigars they sat in a box at the burlesque show, their feet up on the rail, while a chorus of twenty daubed, worried, and inextinguishably respectable grandams swung their legs in the more elementary chorus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of Jews.
Babbit 2004
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She stood for a notable fact: The one species that had seemed inextinguishably numerous was extinct.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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She stood for a notable fact: The one species that had seemed inextinguishably numerous was extinct.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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On the expiration of the half-hour Noel Vanstone presented himself at North Shingles, with the ardor of a lover burning inextinguishably in his bosom, through the superincumbent mental fog of a thoroughly bewildered man.
No Name 2003
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She remembered how Nadie had laughed when three bunches of roses from three different art critics had come in together -- how inextinguishably Nadie had laughed.
A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Because every atom in creation is inextinguishably dowered with individuality, {FN43-6} an astral friend will be recognized no matter what costume he may don, even as on earth an actor's identity is discoverable by close observation despite any disguise.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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