rare. [f. the vb.] The act of quenching; the state or fact of being quenched.
1529. More, Dyaloge, II. Wks. 184/1. [To] lye and smolder as coles doth in quenche.
1546. J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 9. A whyle kepe we in quenche All this Case.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIX. 365. A harmfull fire let runne … none came To giue it quench.
1818. T. Brown, in D. Welsh, Life, vi. (1825), 389. The quench Of hope … Made even the ghastly change … Seem ghastlier.
