unbrookable
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English
Etymology
From un- + brook + -able;[1] analysable as un- + brookable.
Adjective
unbrookable (comparative more unbrookable, superlative most unbrookable)
- Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
- 1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:
- Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […]
- 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 123:
- The original document was in what is known as Hanno O’Nonhanno’s unbrookable script, that is to say, it showed no signs of punctuation of any sort.
Derived terms
References
- ^ “unbrookable, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
