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unobˈjectionable, a. (un-1 7 b.) In common use from c 1800.
1793A. Geddes Addr. to Public 3 A New Translation, that should be unobjectionable to my brethren of the R. Catholic communion. 1794Paley Evid. iii. vi. ⁋5 There are few cases in which..we cannot suppose something more perfect, and more unobjectionable, than what we see. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 152 A safe and un⁓objectionable medium through which to prove the divine legation of Moses. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. iv. 66 His conduct was unobjectionable. Hence unobˈjectionableness; unobˈjectionably adv.
1828–32Webster s.v., Unobjectionably. a1849Poe E. B. Browning Wks. 1865 III. 411 The former poem is purely imaginative; the latter is unobjectionably because unobtrusively suggestive of a moral. 1878W. Walker Life Bp. Gleig vii. 299 The Canonical unobjectionableness of the Bishop-elect. |