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单词 unconfinable
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unconfinableadj.

Forms: 1600s vnconfinable, 1600s– unconfinable, 1600s– unconfineable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, confine v., -able suffix.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + confine v. + -able suffix. Compare slightly later confinable adj., and also unconfined adj.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unconˈfinable.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [adjective] > free from confinement > that cannot be confined
unconfinable1602
inconfinable1606
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 21 You stand vpon your honor. Why thou vnconfinable basenesse thou, tis as much as I can do to keep the termes of my honor precise.
1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. vi. 185 Your pitty..'tis so great, and unconfinable.
1806 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) I. App. 523 [Light and caloric] being of too subtile a nature to be confined in any vessels which we possess, have..been termed unconfinable bodies.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 291 Light and caloric, those unconfinable powers which so many of these manipulations elicit or require.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iii. 180 It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable.

Derivatives

unconˈfinably adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [adverb] > free from confinement > that cannot be confined
unconfinablya1657
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 161 But I outrun the Constable: Dear Brother, Unconfinably yours to serve you, R. L.
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