a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] That cannot be quenched; unquenchable, inextinguishable.
1557. Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 137. These hellish houndes, with paines of quenchlesse fyre.
c. 1632. Cowley, Elegy Ld. Carleton. An angry Fever, Whose quenchless Thirst, by Blood was sated never.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VI. 473. In faculties of endless growth, In quenchless passions.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xlii. Fire…, but once kindled, quenchless evermore.
1877. C. Geikie, Christ, lvii. (1879), 691. A last sad look of quenchless pity.
Hence Quenchlessly adv.; Quenchlessness.
1594. Kyd, Cornelia, V. 403. Sacred Temples quenchlessly enflam’d.
1848. Craig, Quenchlessness.
