immitigable
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Etymology
Origin of immitigable
1570–80; < Late Latin immītigābilis. See im- 2, mitigate ( def. ), -able ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
Our lustrous England rose to life and light From Rome's and hell's immitigable night, And music laughed and quickened from her breath, When first her sons acclaimed Elizabeth.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Doth some lone Dryad haunt the breezeless air, Fronting yon bright immitigable blue, And wildly breathing all her wild soul through That strange unearthly music of despair?
From Songs from the Southland by Sarah Frances Price
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