unpacifiable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From un- + pacifiable.
Adjective[edit]
unpacifiable (not comparable)
- Not pacifiable.
- 1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book IV (Sal Gentium. […]).] The Life and Death of Mr. Nathanael Mather.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, section II (His Piety), page 217, column 1:
- He had an unpacifiable Diſſatisfaction at himſelf until good Thoughts vvere lodg'd in him, and vain ones vvere forced to gnaſh their Teeth, and melt away: Nothing vvould content him, but the bringing of his Thoughts into a Subjection to the Lord Jeſus Chriſt.
- 1918 April, Louis E. Van Norman, “The Peoples of the Eastern Moat”, in Sea Power[1], page 238:
- It is all enemy country and unpacifiable even to the Greek Kalends.
- 2016, Kristen Lacefield, The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring[2]:
- […] the otherness of Samara, ultimately marking her as knowable, yet unpacifiable—a restatement of the traditional principles of American horror films in which the “monstrous-feminine” is the main threat to dominant patriarchal ideology.