stanchless

Adjective

stanchless (comparative more stanchless, superlative 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.1594, Michael Drayton, Matilda, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby
   • We see, but cannot heal the stanchless wound,
     We share its gushing sorrow, still it bleeds;1819, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, “Aspley Wood” Canto 2, stanza 26, in Aonian Hours and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 2nd edition, 1820, p. 82

   Synonyms:

   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,c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
   • This loosness to their spoyle the Troians did allure,
     Who fiercely them assail’d: where stanchlesse furie rap’t
     The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap’t:1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 1”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...

   Synonyms:

   unquenchable, insatiable