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unacceptable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b. For pronunciation see note to acceptable a.]
Not acceptable.
Catch.-phr. the unacceptable face of ―: see quot. 1973.
1483Cath. Angl. 2/2 Vn Acceptabylle, ingratus,..non acceptabilis. 1540Wyatt in Flügel Neuengl. Lesebuch I. 349, I can not ellis se what shold move this rigour..onles I peraventure be vnacceptable vnto hym. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. ii. iv. §5 To the author and God of our nature, how shal any operation proceeding in naturall sort, be in that respect vnacceptable? 1634Canne Necess. Separ. 27 A vaine worship: and therefore vnacceptable altogether to the Lord. 1697Bentley Phal. (1699) 83 It will not be unacceptable to the Reader, to see some of it here corrected. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes v. 241 The new Laws of King Henry being very unacceptable to the English. 1753Warburton in Harris Hardwicke (1847) II. 481 No favours from such a hand could be unacceptable. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 551 He still called himself a Whig, and was not unacceptable to many of the Whigs. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 165 An honourable son-in-law could not be unacceptable to him. 1973E. Heath in Hansard Commons 15 May 1243 It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind. 1973Times 5 June 1/6 He called the actions of the News of the World ‘the unacceptable face of journalism’. 1975A. Beevor Violent Brink vii. 210 Let us look at the unacceptable face of Communism. 1982Guardian 8 Jan. 18/1 The unacceptable face of modern men's tennis was seen again during the Barratt world doubles championship..yesterday when Hank Pfister..swore at the match umpire and then accused him of cheating.
Hence unacceptableness; unacceptably adv.
1648Hexham ii, On-aengenaemheydt, *Un-acceptableness. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. (1682) 72 To correct the un⁓acceptableness of his story. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 2, I hope this Alteration does not arise from any natural Antipathy I have to Sense; but from the unacceptableness of the Subject I am upon. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxi, A tone timid with an apprehension of some possible unacceptableness.
1648Hexham ii, On-aenge⁓naemlick, *Vn-acceptably. 1828–in various Dicts. |