单词 | unauthoritative |
释义 | unauthoritativeadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adjective] > lacking authority singlec1449 wavering?a1513 without (one's) booka1569 unauthoritative1644 inauthoritative1659 1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy v. 39 Is that..Authoritative; or merely Consiliarie and unauthoritative? 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xix. §22 A Book of expository Jurisprudence is either authoritative or unauthoritative. 1851 H. W. Torrens in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 19 14 The vague and unauthoritative character of this learned writer's deductions. 1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. I. iv. iii. 67 An abstract, imperfect and unauthoritative, of the Regent's act of confirmation. Derivatives unauˈthoritatively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adverb] > without authority unauthoritativelya1827 a1827 in J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. (1827) V. ix. iv. 595 To speak of the unauthoritatively..described act, as evidence of the authoritatively..expressed one. unauˈthoritativeness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [noun] > lack of authority infirmitya1631 unauthoritativeness1644 inauthoritativeness1659 unauthenticity1776 1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy iv. 27 It brings an illegality and unauthoritativenesse on acts exceeding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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