Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inextinguishably.
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- adverb In a way that cannot be
extinguished .
Etymologies
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unextinguishable + -ly
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Examples
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The lady was willing -- was more than willing; "for when the fires of Spanish love are kindled, they burn unextinguishably," says the proverb.
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He was unextinguishably amorous, and his mistress inexorably cruel.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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