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insufferable, a.|ɪnˈsʌfərəb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + sufferable; perh. ad. obs. and dial. F. insouffrable.]
Not sufferable; that cannot be borne or endured; insupportable, intolerable, unbearable.
1533Bellenden Livy v. (1822) 425 To be irkit with owre ithand and insuffirabil lauboure. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 9 We found so great, so insufferable heat, as you will hardly imagine that bodies..could indure. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 22 Now Age has overtaken me; and Want, a more insufferable Evil..has wholly disenabl'd me. 1712Steele Spect. No. 429 ⁋2 A vain Person is the most insufferable Creature living in a well-bred Assembly. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Convers. Paul, Still gazing, though untaught to bear Th' insufferable light. 1845James A. Neil II. vi, This insolence is insufferable.
Hence inˈsufferableness, the quality or condition of being insufferable.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 67 By the indignity, unjustnesse, wickednesse, insufferablenesse,..that thereof ensueth. 1889Cape Law Jrnl. 196 Any one who..out of insufferableness (or insupportableness) withdraws himself from the marriage bond, or goes away and leaves his spouse, with the intention not to return to her again, leaves the innocent party free to re-marry. |