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unaˈmenable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
1771E. Long Trial of Dog ‘Porter’ in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 209 Laws to which he was unamenable. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 599 Superior and unamenable power. 1868Visct. Strangford Select. (1869) II. 251 Tibet, Afghanistan, and all Indian frontier countries are classed in the same category as unamenable to civilised laws. 1877Sir H. Taylor Autobiog. (1885) I. 139 The good easy Chancellor of the Exchequer was overruled by the stout and unamenable Secretary. |