slakeless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slakeless (comparative more slakeless, superlative most slakeless)
- (archaic, poetic) Not capable of being slaked.
- Synonyms: unquenchable, unrelievable
- c. 1600, Richard Linche, Diella, Sonnet XXX:
- my slakelesse payne hells horror doth exceede
- 1821, Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante, Canto 1:
- Who sleeps to dream of blood, and waking glows
With the oft-baffled, slakeless thirst of change
References
[edit]- “slakeless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.