Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Admitting of no relief or succor.
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- adjective Not
relievable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She knew the girl felt what she had felt when her boys died: unrelievable grief.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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She knew the girl felt what she had felt when her boys died: unrelievable grief.
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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She knew the girl felt what she had felt when her boys died: unrelievable grief.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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She knew the girl felt what she had felt when her boys died: unrelievable grief.
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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But he who is not able to discern them in the bringing about of so mighty a work by means so disproportionate thereunto, is under the power of the unrelievable prejudices intimated by our apostle in this case, 2 Cor. iv.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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It evidences its divine power in administering strong consolations in the deepest and most unrelievable distresses.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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How many hearts have ached with cankering pain to see those who are vitally dear, wasting away slowly, but surely, with unrelievable suffering; and to know that life but prolongs their misery, and death relieves it only with inconsolable grief for the living.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane
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So spoke Ave, at sight of the neglected altar; there followed once more a silence, and once more 'twas broken by a shriek – but a shriek piercing and awful in its hopeless unrelievable horror.
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They were never sad or low-spirited, but sometimes Mrs. Hartley would sigh, or Grandma Cromarty would look anxious, as if at some unrelievable sorrow.
Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902
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My temples ached with a dull, unrelievable pain, and a deadly nausea seemed to pervade the very atmosphere.
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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