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unconˈfinable, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 21 You stand vpon your honor: why, (thou vnconfinable basenesse), it is as much as I can doe to keepe the termes of my honor precise. 1669Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 771 Your pity is so great and unconfinable. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. (1806) I. 523 [Light and caloric] being of too subtile a nature to be confined in any vessel that we possess, have..been termed unconfinable bodies. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 291 Light and caloric, those unconfinable powers which so many of these manipulations elicit or require. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1821) I. 152 It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable.
Hence unconˈfinably adv.
a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 161 But I outrun the Constable: Dear Brother, Unconfinably yours to serve you, R. L. |