unpurchasableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpəːtʃᵻsəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpərtʃəsəb(ə)l/ That cannot be purchased; esp. not attainable with money.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > unobtainable
ungettable1554
unprocurable1607
unpurchasable1611
unacquirable1640
unobtainable1653
inobtainablea1718
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inacquisteuole, vnpurchasable.
1669 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company vii. 215 One of their Antient Emperours..was so intoxicated with this Phrensie, that with the danger and hazard of his mortal Life, endeavoured after an unpurchaseable immortality.
1742 F. Blyth Serm. Every Sunday II. 190 That we are privileged with the Power of loving God henceforth without End, is an unpurchasable Happiness.
1794 W. Roberts Looker-on (new ed.) I. 238 The unpurchasable beauties and chaste decorations of rural scenery.
1814 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 513 To others they [sc. spiritual sacrifices] are not only easy & cheap but unpurchaseable and impossible too.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. 215 The country gentleman, whose own vote..was unpurchasable by any money bribe.
1922 Baltimore & Ohio Mag. Sept. 14/1 There is the widest latitude in his job for the exercise of that very tangible but unpurchaseable thing called ‘goodwill’.
1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command v. 131 The real jewel, unpurchasable, beyond all price, is the man who hates tyranny as bitterly as I do.
2010 Western Morning News (Nexis) 29 Oct. 10 Vast swathes of previously unpurchasable land are suddenly on the market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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