implacable, a.
(ɪmˈpleɪkəb(ə)l, -ˈplækəb(ə)l)
[a. F. implacable, ad. L. implācābilis, f. im- (im-2 + plācābilis placable. (By Spenser and Longfellow stressed on first (or third) syllable.)]
1. That cannot be appeased; irreconcileable; inexorable: of persons, feelings, etc.
| 1522 More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 83/1 Bering implacable anger where they perceue themself not accepted. 1611 Bible Rom. i. 31 Couenant breakers..implacable, vnmercifull. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 165 ¶3 That we should be harassed by implacable persecution. 1769 Robertson Chas. V (1813) V. iii. 340 He was, besides, the implacable enemy of Bourbon. 1827 Lytton Pelham ii, If I, or any of his friends, was injured or aggrieved, his anger was almost implacable. 1875 Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xvi. 325 The earl of Warwick remained implacable. |
b. Const. to.
| 1678 Bunyan Pilgr. i. (ed. 2) 84 They thereby shew them⁓selves to be implacable to good. 1785 T. Balguy Disc. 62 The greater part of these sectaries were implacable to those who differed from them. |
† 2. That cannot be assuaged or mitigated. Obs.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 44 O how I burne with implacable fire. Ibid. iii. vii. 35. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 658 Thir armor help'd their harm..which wrought them pain Implacable. 1862 Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. xiii, The plunge of the implacable seas, The tumult of the winds at night. |
3. as n. One who is implacable.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 2 As I have ordered it, the flight will appear to the implacables to be altogether with her own consent. |