Stern and unmitigable accusations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to mitigate a punishment. From Dictionary.com.
Anna should love, and after our love-journey together, go about our separate lives and dine at the public tables, until the advent of her motherhood, would have seemed a terrible strain upon our unmitigable loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
The obelisk relieves the monotony of immeasurable plains over which a sky of serene unstained blue arches itself in infinite altitude, the image of eternal purity, and the sun rises day after day with the same unsullied brilliance, and sets with the same unmitigable glory. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Daughters are, therefore, not utterly unmitigable evils. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
He presented a curious mixture of easy forgiveness and unmitigable malice. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
They fought as two men whose lives had pent up an unmitigable hate for this moment. From Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
Be quick with your thinking, for the unmitigable minutes are dying fast and forever. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
Against Mrs. Poyntz, above all others, I bore a remembrance of unrelaxed, unmitigable indignation. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
Who has been hunted on these stern and unmitigable accusations, but has been at last brought to bay?. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
Who has been hunted on these stern and unmitigable accusations, but has been at last brought to bay?. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
No better process was found, and the disgust of the public with their goods was soon general and unmitigable. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
Here is Donatello haunted with strange remorse, and an unmitigable resolve to obtain what he deems justice upon himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
"Up to twenty-one he is an unmitigable nuisance!" concluded the belle, with the vanity of one who has put the case smartly. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
O, worn and beating heart, may I dissect thy fibres, and tell how in each unmitigable misery, sadness dire, repinings, and despair, existed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
There a new broom had been brought in, in the place of our poor friend Alaric, a broom which seemed determined to sweep all before it with an unmitigable energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Laxly e mail lists at nosohusial sphaerocarpos to relishing no striver in advancing intervention, a unmitigable litchee, they are so susceptible adverbially heterospory christless the old pyrogallic way. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Here advance a row of stern, unmitigable-fanatics, each of whom clinches his teeth, and grasps his weapon with a fist of iron, at sight of the temples of the ancient faith, with the sunlight glittering on their cross-crowned spires. From Wordnik.com. [Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")] Reference
I saw him, not contented with blasting my reputation, confining me for a period in jail, and reducing me to the situation of a houseless vagabond, still continuing his pursuit under these forlorn circumstances with unmitigable cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
We do applaud the Speaker for eliminating DSNY plans to re-fuel any and all City vehicles making its Fuel Depot a magnet destination while adding to the unmitigable congestion and air pollution of the Canal Street (CATS) and Route 9A Corridors "except in emergencies". From Wordnik.com. [Curbed] Reference
The responsibility and loyalty which the citizens of a democratic nation must feel one towards another is comprehensive and unmitigable; but the actual behavior which at any one time the national welfare demands must, of course, be specially and carefully discriminated. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise of American Life] Reference
And so she went on till she was exhausted, but neither convinced nor subdued; and to this day, I believe, a step-mother is to her an unmitigable evil — ` true! even to this day true, Aunt Sarah! '— to which all my sister-in-law's good sense and good temper has not reconciled her, so do her feelings overpower her reason. From Wordnik.com. [Married or single?] Reference
The malady which seized her in the bloom of youth, and pursued her with unmitigable severity through every stage of life, till, in the prune of her powers, it laid her in a premature grave, exhibits, in the history of its progress, a series of sufferings that might disarm the sternest, soften the most rigid, and awaken pity in the hardest heart. From Wordnik.com. [Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire] Reference
'deliberate and unmitigable baseness of morality.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference
A depth of disappointment: on what must have then appeared to him such unmitigable woe. From Wordnik.com. [Paul et Virginie. English] Reference
"Never!" said he, with unmitigable will; "your reappearance has destroyed the work of years. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
Still she denounced unmitigable woe. From Wordnik.com. [Poems (1828)] Reference
And hath there been a ruffler in the field for prelacy and high prerogative more unmitigable or fiercer? ". From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
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