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† unˈestimable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
1. = inestimable a. 1.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 172 marg., A learned kyng [is] an vnestimable treasure. 1548― Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 188 b, Beyng enkiendled with the vnestimable fyer of charytee & loue towardes mankynd. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 210/1 Some by warre haue..vnestimable riches with verie little losse or no dammage at all. 1628tr. Mathieu's Powerfull Favorite 102 Here all the world laments the vnestimable losse of the bookes of Cornelius Tacitus.
2. = inestimable a. 3.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 694 There can hardly be a higher evincement how unestimable most Worldly things deserve to be. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 41 None are so unestimable..as those fickle-fancy'd men, whose friendships will hold no longer then Pliny's peaches. |