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unmiˈstakable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
In common use from c 1855.
1666Tillotson Rule of Faith i. iii. §9. 31 Unmistakeable, indefectible Oral Tradition. a1834Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1847) I. 305 In Nature..there are unmistakeable foretokens of Evil. 1840Hood Up Rhine 242 The unmistakeable Roman features of the Centurion. 1860Tyndall Glac. 390 The veins..cutting each other at an unmistakeable angle.
Hence ˌunmistakaˈbility; unmiˈstakableness.
1866Grosart in Lismore Papers Introd. 13 The frankness and unmistakableness with which facts are given. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 13 It matters only if another writer should arise who..will take advantage of some of Henry James's explorations and use them in order to increase his own unmistakability. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 19 May 41/3 One thing all [these villages] possess, and Torremolinos-rampant does not, is unmistakeability. |