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unˈsaleable, a. and n.
(un-1 7 b, 12.)
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Merx, Vnsalehable ware. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 60 Sermons..vented in such numbers,..as have now wellnigh made all other books unsalable. 1692Ray On Creation (ed. 2) Advt., By publishing a Second Edition of a Book, with large Additions, to render the former worthless and unsalable. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. xxxiii, An unsaleable piece of cambrick. 1798Hull Advertiser 23 June 4/4 Middling and ordinary qualities are quite unsaleable. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. 178 The unsaleable nature of my writings. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last (1862) 112 A horse is useless, and therefore unsaleable, if no one can ride.
n.1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 657 ‘Scott's thirty thousand copies sold,’ which must sadly discomfit poor Southey's unsaleables. 1843E. Fitzgerald Lett. (1889) I. 116 A desperate collection of pictures..: among them old unsaleables by Maclise.
Hence unsaleaˈbility; -ableness.
1872De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 123 A climax of *unsaleability, unreadability, and inutility.
1775Ash, *Unsaleableness. 1903Saturday Rev. 10 Jan. 43/1 The unsaleableness of landscape. |