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unˈjustifiable, a.
(un-1 7 b, 5 b.)
In very frequent use from c 1760.
1641Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §117 Their unjustifiable designs and pretences. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) 262 Being resolved never to doe any Thing unjustifyable. 1716Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 324 An intolerable and unjustifyable Injury. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. §34. 171 They did nothing unjustifiable. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 178 That even..Russell had gone to unjustifiable lengths against the government. 1879Trollope Cousin Henry xi, They had been hard words—quite unjustifiable unless [etc.].
Hence unˈjustifiableness.
1653Manton Exp. James ii. 24 The unjustifiableness of that faith which is without works. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 91 The Unjustifiableness of Proceedings of this nature. 1745J. Marchant Expos. Gen. xix. 66/2 The Unjustifiableness of the Means dissecrates the Means. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. i. §14. 9 In proportion to the unjustifiableness of its introduction, was the extravagance of the form it assumed. |