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unbeˈlievable, a.
Also 6 vnbeleu(e)able, 6–7 vnbeleeu(e)able; 7 unbeleavable; 6 unbelieuable.
[un-1 7 b.]
That cannot be believed; incredible.
1548Geste Pr. Masse A viij b, Which graunt [= admission] as it is erronyouse and vnbeleueable so vngodly and exchuable. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts vii. 36 Though it semed to be a thynge vnbeleuable that was promysed,..Abraham beleued. 1580Apol. Prince of Orange liv, Some..will thinke it vnbeleeueable, that euer there could be founde, such great inconstancie in them. 1624Heywood Gunaik. vii. 346 Hugotio..began to recite many unbeleavable things concerning his appetite in his youth. 1633J. Done tr. Aristeas' Hist. Septuagint 63 This is a thing yet more admirable, and almost vnbeleeuable. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxii, However unbelievable it may seem, you may depend upon it, it is all true. 1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Diderot (1888) V. 52 He believes that pleasure is pleasant: that a lie is unbelievable. 1895Saintsbury Corrected Impressions xv. 144 Almost unbelievable faults of taste.
Hence unbeˈlievably adv.
1839Bailey Festus 359 Made pure, and unbelievably uplift Above their present state. 1893Chamb. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 514/1 It seemed almost unbelievably sweet. |