单词 | inaccessibility |
释义 | inaccessibilityn. 1. In plural. Inaccessible places. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > a remote or inaccessible place out-place1530 inaccessibilities1651 inaccessible1792 the back of beyond1816 hardscrabble1821 the back of Godspeed1827 out-of-the-way1971 1651 R. Weldon Of Antichrist 51 Concerning the severall Inaccessibilities of the former Temple, and the significancies of the Regions thereof. 1728 H. Bridges tr. M. de Cervantes Coll. Select Novels ii. 164 This puts me in mind of the Inaccessibilities Travellers think to touch, but come not at 'em. 1807 Lit. Panorama Nov. 248 A kind of perpetual bird's eye view..was wanted by the geographer who sat in his closet, to enable him to..traverse in meditation inaccessibilities which he could not so much as think of attempting to behold. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 501 Going from Stollhofen..up into the inaccessibilities. 1949 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times-News 25 Sept. Due to the inaccessibilities necessitated by the mountains and expensive, circuitous and rough country roads, many of the citizens of Scott live in remote communities. 1983 Hudson Rev. 36 97 Wild turkey, deer, grouse inhabit the inaccessibilities. 2. The quality or condition of being inaccessible (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > state of being at a distance > state of being remote or inaccessible inaccessibleness1618 inaccessibility1652 unaccessiblenessa1676 out-of-the-wayness1800 reachlessness1861 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible > quality of being inaccessible inaccessibleness1618 inaccessibility1652 unapproachableness1727 inapproachability1871 the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > ability or liability to be affected > not insusceptibility1821 inaccessibility1864 unamenability1865 non-sensitiveness1879 indisposition1900 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 272 To maintain the charge of an everlasting war against the storms of the climate, the fierceness of discontented People, inaccessibility of the hills, [etc.]. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 317 The inaccessibility of the Marishes [L. inaccessa paludum] frighted them from their Design. 1753 tr. F. Génard School of Man 188 The Inaccessibility of the Court is no Preservative to the People against the Contagions of its Views. 1798 T. Pennant View of Hindoostan II. 73 The partial inaccessibility bestowed on them by nature. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iii. xxi. §4 Accounted for by..their inaccessibility to observation. 1864 Spectator 1403 Should we prove our reliance on his inaccessibility to error? 1956 R. Carrington Guide Earth Hist. (1958) vi. 61 The great age and general inaccessibility of the Pre-Cambrian rocks..make it impossible to give any definite verdict. 1970 C. L. Cline in G. Meredith Lett. I. p. xxxii The inaccessibility of reference books in provincial towns may also have contributed to the slothfulness of the editing. 1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction ii. v. 104 To hear these women singing is not to hear Christianity but rather the absolute inaccessibility of any of its tenets. 2011 R. C. Ostergren & M. Le Bossé Europeans (ed. 2) iv. 119/2 The relative inaccessibility of the Caledonian Highlands of the British Isles..has certainly played a role in preserving the last vestiges of Celtic culture in Europe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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