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unˈpractical, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
1637Bp. Reynolds Serm. (1638) 26 To foment their jealousies and censures..by novell, speeious, and unpracticall Curiosities. 1668Hale Pref. to Rolle's Abridgm. 5 Some of their Laws grew..obsolete, some unpracticall, some obscure. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vii, Caroline was feeling..what an unpractical life she led. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 152 An unpractical, unsuccessful enthusiast.
Hence unpractiˈcality; unˈpractically adv.; unˈpracticalness.
1875Howells Foregone Concl. (1882) 313 That poor fellow with his whole stock of helplessness, dreamery and *unpracticality. 1880Athenæum 18 Dec. 812/3 The delightful unpracticality of good Mrs. Brooke.
1881Trans. Obstet. Soc. Lond. XXII. 5 Where we cannot foresee any immediate effect on practice, that is, so far as we can see, *unpractically.
1843J. S. Mill Let. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 579 The chief fault seems to me that of entire *unpracticalness. 1880V. Lee Stud. Italy ii. iii. 49 To this charming unpracticalness..must be added the fact that [etc.]. |