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English
Etymology
From in- + comportable.
Adjective
incomportable (comparative more incomportable, superlative most incomportable)
- (rare) Not comportable; intolerable; inconsistent; unsuitable; unendurable.
1750, Baron John Somers Somers, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects: But Chiefly such as Relate to the History and Constitution of these Kingdoms - Selected from an Infinite Number in Print and Manuscript, in the Royal Cotton, Sion, and Other Public, as Well as Private Libraries; Particularly that of the Late Lord Somers - Revised by Eminent Hands, volume 2, A. M'Culloh & F. Cogan, page 80:And being from the beginning greivous, and incomportable, in time it discovered it selse to be but weak.
1845, John Campbell Baron Campbell, Mrs. Hardcastle (Mary Scarlett Campbell), The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, volume 3, The Michigan State University Press, page 313:He could not flatly refuse them, although it was said to be no new device to shove men out of their places by contriving incomportable hardships to be put upon them, and after bespeaking the succession by officious undertaking to do all that was required to break the condition of advancement.
1994, Department of Philosophy, The Personalist Forum - Volumes 10 to 13, The Furman University Press - Originally: The Michigan University Press, page 154:Under the most likely scenario, they are incomportable as he presently carries them forward.
2004, Richard C. Prust, At the Interface - Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief - Probing the Boundaries, Amsterdam & New York - Printed in the Netherlands: Rodopi Publishing, page 43:In that case our incorrigibly incomportable courses would make it impossible for me to count both your course and mine as moral courses of action.