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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

At length the body is found, and poor Zenobia is brought to the shore with her knees still bent in the attitude of prayer, and her hands clenched in immitigable defiance.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

In her is embodied unmixed and immitigable passion, without law, limit, reason, patience, or restraint.

From Shadows of the Stage by Winter, William

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