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unˈteachable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of being instructed.
c1475Cath. Angl. 378/2 (A.), Vn Techeabylle, indocibilis. 1580Hollyband, Indocile, vntractable, vnteachable. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 188 The ignorant person that knoweth not himselfe..is as vnteachable a beast as can be. 1645Milton Tetrach. 42 Our Saviour at no time exprest any great desire to teach the obstinate and unteachable Pharises. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 387 They are more unteachable, more heady, more interested. 1797Coleridge Osorio iv. iv. 182 And so the babe grew up..A pretty boy, but most unteachable. 1871Meredith H. Richmond xlvii, I chafed at his unteachable spirit.
absol. and as n.1819Shelley Cyclops 492 Let us with some comic spell Teach the yet unteachable. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. ii. 14 If I had schoolmasters,..do you imagine I would set them on teaching a set of unteachables..?
2. Incapable of being imparted by teaching.
a1667Petty in Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 306 This being infinite and almost unteachable by words. 1813Scott Rokeby i. xxvi, His was minstrel's skill, he caught The art unteachable, untaught. 1860Emerson Cond. Life v. (1861) 116 We are continually surprised with graces..not only unteachable, but undescribable. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 215 Opinions..which in other dialogues Socrates is made to exhibit as untaught, perhaps unteachable.
Hence unˈteachableness.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 462 Doe not ignorant persons continue in blindnes and vnteachablenes? 1702Penn Fruits Solit. ii. §243 The worst part of this Vanity is its Unteachableness. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. II. 79 When kings themselves tried hard to make honest men republicans by their apparent unteachableness. |