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inauthoritative, a.|ɪnɔːˈθɒrɪteɪtɪv|
[in-3.]
Not authoritative; having no authority. Hence inauˈthoritativeness.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. 53 Ignorance and impudence, inability and inauthoritativeness contend which shall be greatest. Ibid. 281 As if all we had done..had been irregular, confused, inauthoritative. 1774T. Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I. 132 An act of Parliament had been passed..against which act the Americans had protested, as inauthoritative. 1839New Monthly Mag. LVI. 275 The only attempt at a connected Life..is..anonymous, and inauthoritative. 1888Nature 8 Mar. 442/2 Far-reaching interests will not excuse inauthoritativeness [in statements]. |