Meanings
- not comparableNot pacifiable.
It is all enemy country and unpacifiable even to the Greek Kalends.
1918 April 28, Louis E. Van Norman, “The Peoples of the Eastern Moat”, in Sea Power, page 2382 more examples
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.
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[…] 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.
2016, Kristen Lacefield, The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring
Origin
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