单词 | unrulableness |
释义 | unrulablenessn. Now rare. The quality of being unrulable; unruly behaviour or character. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun] > ungovernableness unrulablenessc1475 uncontrollableness1634 ungovernableness1673 uncontrollability1909 ungovernability1968 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 94 Þouȝ al þis lijf be foule..for wijldenes and vnreuleablenes, in tyme of ȝongþe. 1654 J. Price Tyrants & Protectors 6 The late King of England..whose stubbornness, resoluteness and unruleableness by Parliaments, Councels, or the wisest of his people, brought him to ruine. 1836 Amer. Monthly Mag. Jan. 20 The unrulableness in which Miss Sedgwick sometimes indulges her heroines. a1855 W. Dow Series Disc. Pract. & Doctrinal Subj. (1876) 2nd Ser. xvii. 470 Apostles forewarn us that..perilous times should come, of which the character should be..selfishness, boasting, unruleableness, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1475 |
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