untirable
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untirable (comparative more untirable, superlative most untirable)
- Incapable of being tired; never tiring.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness […]
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy[1], London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book II, Chapter 6, §4, pp. 313-314:
- The Germans […] plod on from day to day, and year to year—the most patient, untirable, and persevering of animals.
- 1965, Thom Gunn, “Misanthropos” IX (retitled as “Memoirs of the World” in Poems 1950-1966: A Selection, London: Faber & Faber, 1969, p. 41,[2]
- […] I laboured
- to become a god of charm,
- an untirable giver.