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unˈpunishable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. 4 b, He is vnpunysshable of waste by the lawe. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. viii. (1886) 40 An impossible purpose is unpunishable. 1648Fairfax, etc. Remonstr. 49 While your own proceedings admit themselves unpunishable. 1682W. Evats tr. Grotius (title-p.), In the Third [Book] is declared, What in War is Lawful, that is Unpunishable. a1700Dryden tr. Ovid's Art of Love 38 Th' unpunishable Pleasures of the Kind. a1797H. Walpole Geo. II (1847) I. ii. 334 It is the cause of sovereigns that their crimes should be unpunishable. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 354 Mendacity..remains altogether unpunishable. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. i, Inertia alone is at once unpunishable and unconquerable.
Hence unˈpunishably adv.
1649Milton Eikon. xxviii. 230 It were yet absurd to think that the Anointment of God should..give them privilege, who punish others, to sin themselves unpunishably. 1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. 27 The now written, and above described unpunishably mendacious, pleadings. |