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单词 immemorable
释义 immemorable, a.|ɪˈmɛmərəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. immemorābil-is, f. im- (im-2) + memorābilis memorable. Cf. 16th c. F. immémorable.]
1. Not memorable; not worthy of remembrance.
1552Huloet, Immemorable, or vnworthy remembraunce, immemorabilis.1616Bullokar, Immemorable, not worthy to be remembered.1768Woman of Honor I. 222 Poor immemorable insignificants.Ibid. II. 109 Not one jot more immemorable.1880Disraeli Endym. I. xi. 87 An ancient, and in its time, even not immemorable home.
b. as n.
1768Woman of Honor I. 79 Contented with being one of those immemorables, or cyphers of high life.
2. = immemorial. Obs.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 90 As to Age..they be of most immemorable Antiquity.1796Burney Mem. Metastasio III. 85 A right by immemorable prescription.Ibid. III. 161.
Hence iˈmmemorableness, ‘unworthiness to be remembred’ (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
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