Meanings
adjectiveinextinct (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableNot quenched; not extinct, still lively.
Yet beauty inextinct may charm
1876, Herman Melville, “(please specify the canto or chapter)”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC
Origin
- Latininextinctus
- Englishinextinct
From Latin inextinctus, inexstinctus. See extinct.
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