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English
Etymology
From indirigible + -ity.
Noun
indirigibility (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) The quality or state of being indirigible or unsteerable.
1906 January 4, “Dangerous Tram and Trap”, in Motor Traction, volume 2, page 12:It is not generally recognised that complications of this kind arise solely through the indirigibility of tramcars.
1906 July 14, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 65, page 772:[…] extension of the tramway system which involves not only the permanent congestion of streets by reason of the indirigibility of the vehicles […]
1930, Oliver Madox Hueffer, "Cousins German", page 93:Its success was natural enough, reflecting as it did and in reflecting magnifying, the hopes, fears, follies and prejudices of the ordinary middle-class man, and by focussing them all together upon any desired end achieving weight and power — if also the indirigibility — of an avalanche.