unquenchably

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unquenchable +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unquenchably (comparative more unquenchably, superlative most unquenchably)

  1. In a manner that cannot be quenched.
    • 2008 January 27, Brian Morton, “In the American Grain”, in New York Times[1]:
      Kazin, by contrast, was God-haunted (“I want my God back” is the next-to-last sentence of his 1978 memoir, “New York Jew”); unquenchably fascinated by American literature and American history; and politically radical, but in a fashion that owed less to Marx than to Whitman — Kazin’s radicalism was democratic, generous, angry and thoroughly in the American grain.