stanchless

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stanchless

adjective more stanchless · most stanchless

  1. Incapable of being stanched or stopped. A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding, On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding.

    Similar: unstaunchable

  2. figuratively, obsolete Incapable of being satisfied. With this there grows In my most ill-composed affection such A stanchless avarice that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands,

    Similar: unquenchable, insatiable

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@misc{stanchless_2026,
  title = {stanchless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stanchless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}