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inacˈceptable, a.
[in-3.]
Not acceptable, unacceptable.
1878Lecky Eng. 18th C. II. viii. 445 The French made propositions of peace, but they appeared utterly inacceptable. 1908Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 7/1 The Turkish Foreign Minister replied that the proposal was inacceptable. 1934A. S. C. Ross in Neuphilol. Mitt. XXXV. 129 The perpetuation of a Victorian prudishness (inacceptable in philology beyond all other subjects). 1938E. Bevan Symbolism & Belief v. 108, I am in the company of others who find Professor Alexander's philosophy in this respect inacceptable. 1970H. Braun Parish Churches xii. 160 Such dreariness being inacceptable to the parish churchman..Gothic forms began..to represent the appropriate Anglican architecture.
Hence ˌinacceptaˈbility, the quality or condition of being inacceptable.
1922Glasgow Herald 13 May 8 Whatever..France's attitude..might be, the inacceptability of the memorandum as a whole appears to render equally null in her eyes this detail. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) iv. 75 The inacceptability, to my growing intellectual interest, of any Christian theology proffered to me. |