| 释义 |
unimˈprovable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
a1660Hammond Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. 577 The principal faculty which is irrecoverably wanting in such, and by all teaching irreparable and unimproveable, is the power of numbring. a1683Oldham Art of Poetry Wks. (1684) ii. 14 At first dash, as if before 'twere known, [he] Embarques you in the middle of the Plot And what is unimprovable leaves out. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apol. (ed. 3) III. 52 The 'Squire, however, remained totally unimprovable. 1790Act 30 Geo. III, c. 50 To sell or alienate Fee Farm, and other unimproveable Rents. 1822Scott Nigel xv, You show an absolute and unimprovable acquaintance with..mankind in general. 1847Grote Greece xxiv. III. 548 A people the most unprincipled and unimproveable of all.
Hence unimˈprovableness.
1654Hammond Fundam. xvi. 174 This must be imputed..to their ignorance and unimprovableness in matters of knowledge. |