immitigable

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ mitigable.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɪtɪɡəbəl/

Adjective

immitigable (comparative more immitigable, superlative most immitigable)

1. That cannot be mitigated
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.

   • 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter XXXIX, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography‎^[1], New York: P.F. Collier & Son, published 1910, page 81:

     "Oh, my dear son, the plague in this town is raging with immitigable violence, and I am always fancying you will come home infected with it. […] "

   • 1949, Peter de Vries, chapter 13, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, published 1978, page 149:

     " […] Matter is running down and the universe itself will one day become extinct. An everlasting and immitigable nothingness, in the void of black and absolute−"