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inconversable, a. ? Obs.|ɪnkənˈvɜːsəb(ə)l|
Also erron. -ible.
[f. in-3 + converse v. + -able; cf. Sp. inconversable (Guevara, 1539) and conversable.]
Not conversable; † unsociable (obs.); not disposed to converse, uncommunicative.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 2 If he be inconuersible, they abhorre him [orig. si es inconuersable aborrescenle]. 1611Cotgr., Insociable, vnsociable, vncompanable, inconuersible. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. ii. (1713) 3 He is a Person very inconversable. 1706Reflex. upon Ridicule 39 They are regarded as inconversable, rough hewn, rude and phantastical. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xv. (1840) 254 They fled from us, and were altogether inconversible.
Hence inconˈversableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |