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unmentionaˈbility
[un-1 12.]
a. = next b.
1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 373 One whose un⁓mentionabilites are not worth a thought.
b. The fact of (some things') being unmentionable.
1909G. B. Shaw in Three Plays by Brieux (1911) p. xv, Their imitators assumed that unmentionability was an end in itself. c1925D. H. Lawrence Virgin & Gipsy (1930) i. 12 The children were brought up in this atmosphere of cunning self-sanctification and of unmentionability. |