ppl. a. [UN-1 8 and 5 b.] Not extinguished, quenched, or put out: a. Of fire or light (also fig.).

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1697.  Dryden, Æneis, VI. 601. The souls whom that unhappy flame invades … Lament too late their unextinguished fire.

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1730.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 230. One of ye Candles … happen’d … to fall down unextinguish’d.

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1757.  W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, VIII. 241. The seeds of fire, Which unextinguish’d glow in ev’ry pyre.

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1817.  Shelley, Rev. Islam, Ded. xiv. Two tranquil stars … That burn from year to year with unextinguished light.

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1858.  Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Note-bks., II. 175. The comet was already visible amid the unextinguished glow of twilight.

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  b.  Of feelings, etc. (Cf. UNEXTINGUISHABLE a.)

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1700.  Dryden, Sigism. & Guisc., 732. If thou hast remaining in thy Heart Some Sense of Love, some unextinguish’d Part Of former Kindness.

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1757.  W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, VII. 198. But burning still the unextinguish’d pain, The shore he left.

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1800.  Coleridge, Talleyrand to Ld. Grenville, 71. Your merit self-conscious … keeps you up, Unextinguish’d and swoln.

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1858.  Sears, Athan., III. x. 331. There is conflict between the Holy Spirit … and our own unextinguished selfishness.

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