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unenˈdurable, a. (and n.)
Also 7 unin-.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of enduring; † impatient of.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 79 In battell they are fearlesse,..and in service unindurable of temporizing. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 314 If it be soft, broken granite..will prove a useless because an unendurable surface.
2. That cannot be endured; insufferable.
1801Southey Thalaba xii. xviii, No eye could penetrate That unendurable excess of light. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiv. (1856) 303 The sensation most unendurable..is a pain between the eyes and over the forehead. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths x, This ceaseless sense of unendurable reproach.
b. n. An insufferable person.
1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 84 That my friend Andrews may not be considered as one of these unendurables, I will yet add another short anecdote of him.
Hence unenˌduraˈbility.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. v. viii, Some excessive pressure of that lisping snuffling unendurability. 1862Ibid. xii. xi, Such injustices and unendurabilities.
Add: unenˈdurableness n.
1894‘Mark Twain’ in St. Nicholas Feb. 351/2 We..was thirsty clean to unendurableness. |