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immitigable

American  
[ih-mit-i-guh-buhl] / ɪˈmɪt ɪ gə bəl /

adjective

  1. unable to be mitigated; not to be mitigated.


immitigable British  
/ ɪˈmɪtɪɡəbəl /

adjective

  1. rare unable to be mitigated; relentless; unappeasable

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of immitigable

1570–80; < Late Latin immītigābilis. See im- 2, mitigate ( def. ), -able ( def. )


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There is a small but immitigable fallacy in the theory of close reading, though, and it applies to political journalism as well as to the reading of poetry.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2015

Soon he might be able to return to Air Conditioned Nightmare, his book-in-progress on the immitigable crassness of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

He inspects the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, some fiendish and immitigable hope flaring within him: What if-—?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The trees hid the base of the mountain peaks, whose immitigable crags took on added majesty from the play of the delicate near-by branches against their distant rugged slopes.

From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland

If the new birth of Death Meant only more of Life as mortals know it, What priestly balm, what song of highest poet, Could heal one sentient soul's immitigable pain?

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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