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impracticableness|ɪmˈpræktɪkəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being impracticable. a. = impracticability 1 a.
1653Cromwell Sp. 4 July in Carlyle, Having this discourse concerning the impracticableness of the thing. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 449 The impracticableness of keeping her alive in prison. 1853Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. (1858) I. xv. 52 The impracticableness of passing this desert.
b. = impracticability 1 b.
a1715Burnet Own Time, Q. Anne (T. Suppl.), The greatest difficulty in these sieges was from the impracticableness of the ground. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. iii, No clerical magistrate had..less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs. |