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inexcusable, a.|ɪnɛkˈskjuːzəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. inexcūsābilis, f. in- (in-3) + excūsābilis excusable. Cf. F. inexcusable (1474 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Not excusable; incapable of being excused or justified. a. Of persons.
1526Tindale Rom. ii. 1 Therfore arte thou inexcusable [Vulg. inexcusabilis; Wyclif vnexcusable] o man. 1548Ld. Somerset Epist. Scots B j b, Nothyng should be left, of our part vnoffered, nothyng of your part vnrefused, whereby you might bee inexcusable. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §13 Those Philosophers who questioned the existence of a Deity..were not so inexcusable therein, as our Modern Atheists. 1775Burke Sp. Concil. Amer. Wks. III. 37, I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail.
b. Of conduct or actions.
1555Eden Decades Pref. (Arb.) 55 Howe muche I saye shall this sounde vnto owre reproche and inexcusable slothfulnesse and negligence. 1645Chas. I. in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 313 The strange and most inexcusable deliverye upp of the Castle and Fort of Bristoll. 1712Steele Spect. No. 284 ⁋2 It is inexcusable in Men to come where they have no Business. 1829Lytton Disowned xliv, He made no reply to the inexcusable affront he had received. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 131 To condemn an honest thinker to death for simple heterodoxy..was altogether inexcusable. |