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单词 unchastisable
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unchastisableadj.

Forms: Middle English vnchaastisable, Middle English 1600s– unchastisable, 1700s– unchastiseable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, chastise v., -able suffix.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + chastise v. + -able suffix. Compare later chastisable adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unchaˈstisable.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > disobediently stubborn
incorrigiblea1340
unchastisable1382
contumaxc1386
stubbornc1386
stoutc1410
contumacec1425
staffish?a1513
unwieldy1513
untractable1538
intractable1545
prefract?1549
incounselable1554
indocible1555
uncorrectable1562
refractorious1563
haggard1566
neck-stiff1570
uncounsellablea1578
refractary1583
contumacious1603
refractarious1609
refractory1615
unmanageable1616
immorigerous1623
refractive1623
pervicacious1633
unrectifiable1645
undocible1653
undocile1656
untractible1670
unadvisable1672
recalcitrant1797
unguidable1822
recalcitrary1861
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. ii. 4 The sones ben of hard face, and of herte vnchaastisable,..to whom I sende thee.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 57 A chield to thryve that is unchastisable,..It may wele ryme, but it accordith nought.
c1580 Maitland Folio MS. (S.T.S.) lv. 36 A chyld to thryff quhilk is vnchestiable.]
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 38 The hard hearts of others unchastisable in those judicial Courts, were so remitted there, as bound over to the higher Session of Conscience.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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