insupportablenessn.
The quality of being insupportable or unbearable.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun]
intolerableness1579
insupportablenessa1586
insufferableness1592
intolerability1598
unsufferableness1611
unsupportableness1672
importableness1677
unbearableness1730
unendurability1858
unendurableness1894
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. O7 Then fell she to so pitifull a declaration of the insupportablenes of her desires, that [etc.].
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 50 The Prelates are not permitted to complain of their grievances, of the insupportableness of their [the Pope's nephews] Pensions.
1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 313 My Severall Letters of Complaint of ye Insupportableness of it are Witnesses.
1889 Cape Law Jrnl. 196 Any one who..out of insufferableness (or insupportableness) withdraws himself from the marriage bond, or goes away and leaves his spouse, with the intention not to return to her again, leaves the innocent party free to re-marry.
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