slakeless

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English

Etymology

From slake +‎ -less.

Adjective

slakeless (comparative more slakeless, superlative most slakeless)

  1. (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

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