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unreˈlievable, a. (un-1 7 b, 5 b.)
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. x, My ruin being but by one unrelieveable. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love v. (1659) 39 No degree of Distress is unrelievable by his power. 1676Temple Let. Wks. 1720 II. 420 Finding the Swedes weak, divided, and unrelieveable by France. 1820Bentham Mem. Wks. 1843 X. 517 Communicate not to a friend..vexations of yours unrelievable by him. 1898Daily News 29 July 2/6 No operative procedure should be suggested..until the case had been..found to be unrelievable by other means. Hence unreˈlievableness.
1654‘Palæmon’ Friendship 12 The unrelievablenesse of our bad condition. |