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单词 unsuccessive
释义

unsuccessiveadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unsucˈcessive.
1. Unsuccessful. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adjective]
unsped1390
unprosperous1496
speedlessa1542
successless1584
abortive1593
still-born1600
unsuccessful1617
unsuccessive1617
unsucceeding1639
insuccessful1646
birthless1649
failed1655
misproving1798
inconclusive1841
abortional1843
nonsuccessful1867
also-ran1900
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Pref. sig. ¶¶3v To keepe a Iornall in writing..as well of the vnsuccessiue applications, as of the successiue.
2. Not exhibiting succession.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > not exhibiting succession
unsuccessive1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 345 Although we be measured by the Zone of time,..yet can we not thus.. summe up the unsuccessive and stable duration of God. View more context for this quotation
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 90 Such parts of the visible Universe as are incorruptible, unalterable, and unsuccessive.
1737 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 375 If this necessary Being hath no change or succession in his nature, his existence must of course be unsuccessive.
1811 A. McLean Comm. Heb. in Wks. (1847) II. 281 He hath an unsuccessive priesthood, which passeth not from him to any other.

Derivatives

unsucˈcessively adv. †unsuccessfully.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adverb]
unhappily1533
unluckily?1544
unprosperously1564
improsperously1605
unsuccessfully1649
successlessly1652
insuccessively1657
unsuccessively1707
unkindly1743
1707 London Gaz. No. 4333/4 The Union with Scotland,..so often..unsuccessively attempted,..is the Joy..of all Your..Subjects.
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