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unˈmendable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
1584Melville in Cal. Sc. Papers (1913) VII. 175, I assured hym..matters wer able to fall out to her unmendable miscontentement. 1760F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph lxi. (1796) V. 178 The wheel was unmendable. 1822T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 281 An unmendable slit. 1855[J. R. Leifchild] Cornwall 76 That vase,..which one puff of wind..would dash down into innumerable and unmendable fragments! 1877M. Arnold Last Ess. Pref. p. xii, They dream of patching up things unmendable. |