unprisonableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈprɪzn̩əbl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈprɪz(ə)nəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈprɪz(ə)nəb(ə)l/ Somewhat rare.
That cannot be imprisoned or contained.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > not imprisoned
unimprisonable1649
unimprisoned1659
unbastilled1817
unprisoned1829
unimpounded1866
unprisonable1878
1878 M. Collins & F. Collins Village Comedy I. xx. 269 The agile and unprisonable spirit of man.
1893 Electr. Engineer 13 Oct. 354/2 Heat is a very unprisonable form of energy, escaping through all bodies and in all directions.
1908 Cent. Path 8 Nov. 4/2 At an arbitrary place on that slope we have drawn a line on one side of which we have written prisonable and on the other unprisonable.
2010 M. Skerker Ethics Interrogation Concl. 211 Having been tortured, or detained on evidence procured through torture, the ‘high-value detainees’ may now be unprosecutable and unprisonable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1878- crimepreventer
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