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unˈbearable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Unendurable, intolerable.
c1449Pecock Repr. v. v. 507 This man hath a bodili sijknes..bi which he schal lyue in huge vnberable peine or be deed. 1601Sir W. Brown in A. Collins Lett. & Mem. State (1746) II. 228 The hurt Men..make such a noysom Smell in the Towne, that is allmost vnberable. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 175 The first covenant..hath impossible as well as unbearable conditions. 1791–3in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799) I. 159 The consumption of provisions in such an army as this, may be objected to as unbearable. 1812J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 212 He was almost unbearable to many men. 1875C. L. Kenney Mem. M. W. Balfe 60 This state of mind was heightened to an almost unbearable strain of suspense.
Hence unˈbearableness, unˈbearably adv.
1730Bailey (fol.), Insupportableness, *unbearableness. 1867R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower vi, This bearableness or unbearableness of the various burdens laid on the shoulders of poor humanity. 1873Daily News 26 Aug., An ordinary mortal would have found the beach in the middle of the day hot to unbearableness.
1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. i. ⁋11 You are become so *unbearably hateful to her. 1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carlyon II. 255 Since her dog's death she had been more unbearably silly..than ever. |