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unˈprovable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of being proved.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xix. 2042 Eftyr þat he had beyn..in exile Be fenȝheid fals suspicion, And all wnprowabil be resson. 1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices ii. (1556) 65 So we, dissenting from them, do saie again some thinges be prouable, some vnprouable. 1609Bp. Hall Dissuas. Poperie 35 A Religion, that depends wholly vpon nice and poore vncertainties, and vnproueable supposals. 1677Gilpin Demonol. ii. vii. 325 Though Satan's injections of Non⁓election be altogether unproveable. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830) 79 By an unpunishable and unprovable, though solemn act of insincerity. 1883Myers Ess., Mod., Mazzini (1885) 60 Unprovable speculations about the firmament.
†2. Incapable of succeeding. Obs.—1
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. xxiv. 156 Avoid the getting of Eaten, Bitten, Rough, and Brushy, all being un⁓proveable sets.
Hence unprovaˈbility, -ableness.
a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 23 The unproveability of the hypothesis. 1883Contemp. Rev. Nov. 697 There is always a great deal of vagueness, and..of unprovableness, in charges of immorality against a whole race. |