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† unexˈcusable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
= inexcusable a.: a. Of persons.
Chiefly in a religious or moral sense, after Rom. ii. 1 (Gr. ἀναπολόγητος, L. inexcusabilis).
1382Wyclif Rom. ii. 1 For which thing thou ert vnexcusable, thou ech man that demest. a1425St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 118/39 Þou, man, arte vnexcusabil, if so quik argumentz..stir þe not to strengthe of feith. c1561Veron Free-will 47 That they may..be made unexcusable agaynst the day of iudgement. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. i. 4 Therefore are we too unexcusable if we cannot tell what God saith to us there. 1642G. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 298 To leave them altogether unexcusable, [he] sent them a licence..for their absence. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. x. 17 That both Jews and Gentiles..may..be unexcusable in their sin.
b. Of faults, offences, etc.
1550Latimer Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI, Sermons (1580) 113 b, An irremissible sinne, an vnexcusable sinne. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 12 Whereby their martyrdome was far more glorious,..the iniury donne vnto them vnexcusable. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 3 The unexcusable negligence of the Greek church. 1685J. Scott Chr. Life ii. i. 32 As gross and unexcusable a Stupidity as if [etc.].
Hence † unexˈcusableness; -ably adv. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Inexcusablement, vnexcusably. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §25 The Prince Electour..had unexcusably, and directly against his Advice, incurred the Ban of the Empire in an Imperial Dyet. a1660Hammond Serm. xii. Wks. 1684 IV. 642 We will..rip up to you the unexcusableness of the heathen ignorance in general. |