unprocurable

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English

WOTD – 27 June 2011

Etymology

From un- +‎ procurable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

unprocurable (comparative more unprocurable, superlative most unprocurable)

  1. Unable to be procured.
    • 1884, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Sword:
      It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron.
    • 1 June 1917, The Guardian:
      We have been told in many plaintive articles and letters in the London press that servants nowadays are almost unprocurable, and even the best people are having to shut up part of their houses and live in one floor, and so on.
    • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished : Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
      But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable.

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unobtainable — see unobtainable
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