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intolerableness|ɪnˈtɒlərəb(ə)lnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being intolerable; unbearableness.
1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. cxiv. 304 b, Yf..vnto the intollerablenesse of the payne, there be added some farther greefe. 1668R. Steele Husbandm. Call. vi. (1672) 179 The intolerableness of that fire that is never quenched. 1851H. Melville Whale xiii, Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. iii. §67. 158 Of the grotesque in our own Shakespeare I need hardly speak, nor of its intolerableness to his French critics.
†2. Incapacity of endurance; intolerance. Obs.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 17 b/2 Throughe the intollerablenes and greate dolore or payne of the patient. 1598Florio, Intoleranza, intolerablenes, impacience. |