unrulableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈruːləbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈruləb(ə)l/ That cannot be ruled; unruly, ungovernable.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > uncontrollable or ungovernable
steerlessc888
rebelc1400
untemperable?1571
effrenated1587
incontrollable1605
unrepressable1607
commandless1609
unmasterable1618
masterless1619
effrenable1621
uncontrollable1648
unrulable1672
ungovernable1673
governless1679
unrepressible1776
incoercible1804
irrepressible1811
bronco1866
intemperable1898
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > uncontrollable or ungovernable > specifically of the heart, tongue, or feelings
unrulya1450
unwieldy1513
unrefrainable?1520
untameable1567
unrulable1672
1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice i. xx. 85 Preventing the occasion or increase of passion, which will be also so much easier if it be taken before it grow unruleable.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 289 Rendring a Country-property..unattainable as well as unrulable even by an Hereditary Pretender.
1855 Indiana Amer. 7 Sept. 1/8 A new executive had been appointed, to attempt to rule over the very unrulable destinies of the Kansas Missourians.
1881 in J. Hatton New Ceylon vii. 185 People..found to be unruleable by other nations.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 May 313/3 To destroy people's memory is not a way to rule them, but to make them unrulable.
2005 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Books & Arts section) 10 The Bactrian campaign stretched into a years-long attempt to rule a patently unrulable wasteland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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