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  1.  Unextinguished; unsuppressed: a. Of fire or light. Also fig.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 10491. Inntill þatt fir þatt bærnenn shall A butenn ende unncwennkedd.

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a. 1400[?].  MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, fol. 26 (Halliw.). I lycken the worlde to fyre un-queynte.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 4. Vulcan … This pretious ornament … wrought in Lemno with vnquenched fire.

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a. 1626.  Bacon, Prayer, Wks. 1879, I. 340. My heart … hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar.

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1703.  Rowe, Fair Penit., II. D 4. If any Spark from Heav’n remain unquench’d Within her Breast.

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1764.  Goldsm., Trav., 222. Their level life is but a smouldering fire, Unquench’d by want.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxxv. Who but would deem their bosoms burn’d anew With thy unquenched beam, lost Liberty!

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1836.  Lyra Apost. (1849), 180. On high th’unquenched stars Blaze.

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1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., I. 286. Even amid the moral aberrations of heathenism it was granted to some … to keep that light unquenched.

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  b.  Of feelings, qualities, etc.

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1590.  Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., V. iii. His teare-thyrsty and vnquenched hate.

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1593.  Sidney’s Arcadia, III. (1598), 367. Being depriued of her vnquenched desire.

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a. 1625.  Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, IV. iv. My unquench’d charity shall tell you thus much, (Though you deserve it well) you shall not beg.

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1762.  Falconer, Shipwr., III. 168. On the youthful mind th’ impression cast Of ancient glory…; There all unquench’d by cruel fortune’s ire, It glows.

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1797.  Coleridge, Osorio, V. 100. The Tyger, that with unquench’d cruelty, Still thirsts for blood.

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1817.  Byron, Lament of Tasso, v. All unquench’d is still my better part.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 116. The ardour of his unquenched philanthropy.

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  † 2.  Of lime: Unslaked. Obs.

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c. 1500.  Melusine, 142. Barels full of vnquynched lyme.

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c. 1550.  H. Lloyd, Treas. Health, U j b. Make an oyntment … of Aloes and vnquenchyd lime wyth comon oyle.

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1608.  Topsell, Serpents, 43. Vnquenched Lyme, mixeth with Honnie and oyle.

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1660.  Sharrock, Vegetables, 129. I … sometimes have added unquenched lime into the infusions.

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