unpublishableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpʌblᵻʃəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpəbləʃəb(ə)l/ Not publishable; not suitable for publication. Also occasionally as n.: an unpublishable work.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > material to be printed > [adjective] > fit to be printed > not fit to be printed
unpublishablea1670
unproduceable1704
unproduciblea1760
unprintable1830
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 84 Many things, and the best of his Abilities in that place, I believe, are un-publishable; for the most of that Work is secret.
1815 S. T. Coleridge Let. 30 May (1959) IV. 572 Making a Mss Collection of all my poems, publishable or unpublishable.
1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni i. i. 4 His unpublished—his unpublishable and imperishable opera of the ‘Siren’.
1891 S. Smiles Publisher & Friends I. 441 Irving says..that Moore showed him the Byron recollections, and that they were quite unpublishable.
1945 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. c18 Mar. (1995) 114 This is enough! It must go the way of ‘The Silmarillion’ into the Limbo of the great unpublishables!
2010 R. T. Merrill Our Magn. Earth v. 144 He might spend years carrying out research that would prove to be unpublishable.
Derivatives
unˈpublishably adv.
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society > communication > printing > material to be printed > [adverb] > in manner not fit to print
unpublishably1860
unprintably1869
1860 Macmillan's Mag. 1 223 Their ways of conducting themselves were unpublishably singular.
1995 Spin July 82/2 Amis presents the spectacle of a literary failure: author of unpublishably obscure novels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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