unmitigable
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unmitigable (not comparable)
- Not able to be mitigated or made less severe; not mitigable.
- Synonyms: irremediable, unappeasable
- a patient suffering from unmitigable pain
- the unmitigable environmental impact of the proposed project
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine;
- 1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett: or, The Miseries of Civil War[1], Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 3, Letter 111, pp. 40-41:
- Oh for some few months of firmer health! This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!
- 1911, Maurice Baring, “The Death of Alexander”, in Diminutive Dramas,[2], London: Constable, page 36:
- […] Sleep, impiteous sleep,
Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler,
Come, cloak my senses with thy leaden robe,