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unˈsufferable, a. and adv. Now rare or Obs.
[un-1 7 b, 11 b, 5 b.]
1. Incapable of being suffered with patience or equanimity; not to be tolerated or endured; going beyond all natural limits:
a. Of injuries, wrongs, etc.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 fol. 31 b, We undoinde so muche unsufferable luere of oure poeple..stabblissez ant ordeinez [etc.]. c1440Promp. Parv. 367/2 On-sufferabyl, or ontollerable, intollerabilis, insufferabilis. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xvii. 395 Ellis vnsufferable myscheuys of hasty domes wolde ofte falle. 1533Bellenden Livy i. xviii. (S.T.S.) I. 100 Þe haterent and vnsufferabil tyrannye of kingis. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxx. §3 We know no reason wherefore any man should yet imagine it an vnsufferable euill. 1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 301 To call them to accompt..for these unsufferable wrongs. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor i. ii. rule 8 §30 The injustice may be frequent and unsufferable. 1725Pope Odyssey ii. 69 Unsufferable wrong Cries to the Gods, and vengeance sleeps too long. 1763Ld. Halifax in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 361 The Outrages..are most abominable and unsufferable.
b. Of actions, conduct, qualities, etc.
1548Geste Pr. Masse D ij, What an vnsufferable mockedge is this..of God. 1582–3Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 541 A power strange and unsufferabill to be in the persoun of ony inferior subject. 1608Machin Dumb Knt. v. I 3, Thine adulterat..lust, Shamefull and grosse and most vnsufferable. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋250 Unsufferable fallacies..are couched under these four. 1711Steele Spect. No. 38 ⁋10 The unsufferable Affectation you are guilty of in all you say and do. 1720Swift Let. to Yng. Clergyman Wks. 1755 II. ii. 12 The common unsufferable cant of taking all occasions to disparage the heathen philosophers. a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Romance (1775) I. 27 Upon these vast accomplishments, he had built an unsufferable degree of pride.
c. Of persons. Also absol.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. viii. 5 Machabeus..was maad vnsuffreable to heithen men; forsothe the wrath of the Lord is conuertid in to mercye. c1450Holland Houlate 926 Thir birdis ilkane Besocht Natur to cess that vnsufferable. c1470Henry Wallace i. 267 Unsouerable are thir pepille of Ingland. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 112 The more that an ignorant man is lift up unto some excellencie of dignitie.., the more unsufferable he is. 1619A. Newman Pleas. Vis. (1840) 49 All know (vnsufferable Man) they [sc. women] are..beyond compare. 1678A. Behn Sir P. Fancy i. i, The pertest unsufferable fool he ever saw.
2. Too distressing, severe, or painful to be borne; going beyond the limits of physical endurance:
a. Of outward things.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlvii. 6 As wha say, vnsufferabil ware þat kald, if he lesid it noght. 1382Wyclif Num. xi. 10 Thanne Moyses herde the puple wepynge bi meynees,..and to Moyses it was seen a thing vnsuffrable [L. intoleranda]. 1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 22 Thei wolen putten to a man confessid to hem, greuouse chargis and vnsuffrable. 1544Betham Precepts War i. cxxiii. G ij b, They were ashamed, that they dydde not abyde suche lyke labours, yea and moche more vnsufferable. 1562Turner Baths 8 An unsufferable raynye, windye, or colde weather. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 720 The high ridges..are vnsufferable for cold. 1658T. Wall Charact. Enemies Ch. 53 [To] lie under the..dreadful apprehensions, or unsufferable strokes of divine wrath. 1729Savage Wanderer ii. 50 Like noon-tide summer-suns the rays appear, Unsuff'rable, magnificent and near! 1742Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (1743) 202 An unsufferable, ill palated oily Juice, that will spoil all the Liquor. 1869Spurgeon Treas. David Ps. xviii. 6 The king heard it in his palace of light unsufferable.
b. Of pain, grief, fear, etc.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. vii. 79 Grete sekenesse and..grete sorwes vnsuffrable. 1388Wyclif Judith xiv. 17 Vnsuffrable drede and tremblyng felde doun on hem. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 40 Þe pacient feleþ as it war vnsufferable ychyng. c1425St. Christina xvi. in Anglia VIII. 125 She was stired of god vnto an vnsufferabil þriste. c1445Pecock Donet 71 For eesing of his vnsuffrable fleischli freelte. a1589Palfreyman Baldwin's Mor. Philos. (1600) 140 b, Conscience..worketh..vnsufferable torments,..to the condempnation of the vngodly. 1595Clerke Polimanteia S j b, To my vnsufferable and vnpitied griefe. 1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 301 A torture unsufferable unto this young gentlewoman. 1700Blackmore Job 138 My fullness gives unsufferable pain. 1722De Foe Hist. Plague (1754) 261 The unsufferable Torment of the Swellings.
†3. Incapable of self-restraint. Obs.—1
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 61 Þis was a swiþe evel man,..and he was unsuffrable of leccherie [L. libidinis impatientissimus].
†4. Not involving suffering. Obs.—1
1548Geste Pr. Masse C vj, They greuously erre, who hold opinion yt our faultes ar pardoned through theyr vnsufferable & vnbloudy sacrificing of christes bodi.
†5. Incompatible. Obs.—1
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. x, Eternity, and Chaunce are things unsufferable together.
†6. As adv. = unsufferably adv. 1. Obs.
c1420Prose Life Alex. 76 Than commanded Alexander þat þay schuld make many fyres. For it began for to be vnsufferable calde. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋23 Sometimes the Inck proves so unsufferable Pale, that [etc.].
Hence unˈsufferableness.
1611Florio, Inpatibilita, vnsufferablenesse. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. iv. 175 His passions..represent to his mind..the unsufferableness of the disgrace. 1679Kid in Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 2 There is something in a Christians condition, that can never put him without the reach of unsufferableness. |