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unaˈmendable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
c1450Holland Howlat 928 ‘My first making,’ quoth scho, ‘was vnamendable’. c1550Cheke Let. in Athenæum 28 Aug. (1909) 237/2 If you think yourself unamendable. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 112 His vnamendable wickednes and continuall blasphemy. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. i. 6 Let vs aduise our selues to make our profit therof and let vs not be vnamendable. 1646Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 378 The Independents miserable unamendable designe to keep all things from any conclusion. 1653tr. Carmeni's Nissena 10 Struck with admiration to behold those..unamendable beauties. 1729Pope Let. to Swift 9 Oct., [Gay] is the same man. So is every one here that you know: mankind is unamendable. 1817Bentham Parl. Reform Introd. 174 A pure and ever unamendable despotism. 1853Whewell Grotius II. 277 When a man who is unamendable is removed from life, that he may not commit more or greater crimes. |