a. [UN-1 7 b.] That cannot be appeased or placated; implacable, insatiable: a. Of feelings, activities, etc.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. vii. (1634), 158. They presse us, I say, and doe pursue us with an unappeasable rigour.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxxiv. 1. He … burned against him with unappeasable hatred.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 407. Such unappeasable contention and brawlyng about the mainteynaunce of Purgatory.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. 360. They pursued such vnapeasable and tyrannous warre that [etc.].
1671. Milton, Samson, 963. Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages, Eternal tempest never to be calm’d.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Addison, ¶ 37. The author … wandered … behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude.
1822. Lamb, Elia, I. Artif. Comedy. The eternal tormenting unappeasable vigilance … of present fashionable tragedy.
1845. Hamilton, Pop. Educ., ix. (ed. 2), 256. The ambition of the Papal See is unappeasable.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 292. The unappeasable apprehension of a German for his biographer.
b. Of persons (or other agents).
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 574. There is no faith in a hard, stubborne, and vnappeasable man.
1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 543. Set thyself in our defence against this our unappeasable adversary.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xx. 31. The turbulent, and vnappeaceable Dutchesse of Burgundy.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., I. 26. [They are] so vnappeasable in anger, that they cowardly murther their enemies.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Festiv., Poet Wks. 1721, I. 234. With envious Rage I saw them swell, All unappeasable as Hell.
1839. Dickens, Nickleby, xliii. A real live furious and most unappeasable Saracen.
1872. M. Collins, Two Plunges for Pearl, I. ix. 183. One makes it a vast machine, moving blindly in an unalterable groove, driven by an unappeasable fate.
Hence Unappeasableness, -ably adv.
1611. Florio, Implacabilita, vnappeasablenesse. [Also in Bailey and Ash.]
1647. Hexham, I. Vnappeasably, onversoenelicken.
1837. Lytton, Athens, II. 310. Those twin rocks … between which the sea … roars unappeasably through its mists of foam.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XXI. v. (1872), X. 63. He grieves unappeasably to have lost Friedrich.
1871. Lowell, Stud. Wind. (1886), 129. He is pertinaciously and unappeasably dull.
