indirigibility

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English

Etymology

From indirigible +‎ -ity.

Noun

indirigibility (uncountable)

  1. (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.