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unsuˈstainable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. 255 A weapon..whose impression is altogether inevitable and unsustainable. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 61 [To] revive an unsustainable Cause, so often sunk, and so often irretrievably baffled. 1740Phil. Trans. XLI. 414 This Notion is certainly as unsustainable as the First. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 297 It was unanimously held that these pleas were unsustainable. 1885Sir J. Bacon in Law Times' Rep. LII. 210/2 The application is wholly unsustainable. |