unsufferableadj.adv.

Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1b, 5b, and etymological note.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈsufferable.

Now rare or Obsolete.

1. Incapable of being suffered with patience or equanimity; not to be tolerated or endured; going beyond all natural limits:

a. Of injuries, wrongs, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adjective]

untholelyc1225

untholinga1300

unsufferablea1325

untolerablea1382

importable1402

untholefula1425

unbearablec1449

unportablea1500

impassible1508

intolerablea1513

insupportable1530

insufferable1533

incomportable1574

impatient1590

intollerous1594

unsuffered1598

supportless1602

unsupportable1602

indurable1607

impatible1623

unbrookable1633

unsustainable1662

unendurable1801

impassive1828

punishing1833

thick1884

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 66 We undoinde so muche unsuffrable luere of oure poeple..stabblissez ant ordeinez [etc.].

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 367/2 On-sufferabyl, or ontollerable, intollerabilis, insufferabilis.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 395 Ellis vnsufferable myscheuys of hasty domes wolde ofte falle.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xviii. 100 Þe haterent and vnsufferabil tyrannye of kingis.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxx. 65 We know no reason wherefore any man should yet imagin it an vnsufferable euill.

1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 301 To call them to accompt..for these unsufferable wrongs.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. ii. Rule 8 §30 The injustice may be frequent and unsufferable.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 69 Unsufferable wrong Cries to the Gods, and vengeance sleeps too long.

1763 Ld. Halifax in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 361 The Outrages..are most abominable and unsufferable.

b. Of actions, conduct, qualities, etc.

ΚΠ

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. D ii What an vnsufferable mockedge is this..of God.

1582–3 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 541 A power strange and unsufferabill to be in the persoun of ony inferior subject.

1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight v. sig.I3 Thine adulterat..lust, Shamefull and grosse and most vnsufferable.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋250 Unsufferable fallacies..are couched under these four.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 38. ⁋10 The unsufferable Affectation you are guilty of in all you say and do.

1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 18 The common unsufferable Cant of taking all Occasions to disparage the Heathen Philosophers.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. v. 27 Upon these vast accomplishments he had built an unsufferable degree of pride.

c. Of persons. Also absol.

ΚΠ

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. viii. 5 Machabeus..was maad vnsuffreable to heithen men; forsothe the wrath of the Lord is conuertid in to mercye.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 267 Unsouerable ar thir pepille of Ingland.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 926 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 124 Yir birdis Ilkane Besocht natur to cess yat vnsufferable.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 118 The more that an ignorant man is lift vp vnto some excellencie of dignitie.., the more vnsufferable he is.

1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision sig. D7 All know (vnsufferable Man) they [sc. women] are..beyond compare.

1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy i. i. 2 The pertest unsufferable Fool he ever saw.

2. Too distressing, severe, or painful to be borne; going beyond the limits of physical endurance:

a. Of outward things.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment

sharpc1000

grievousc1290

smartc1300

fellc1330

unsufferablea1340

keena1375

poignantc1390

rending?c1400

furiousc1405

stoutc1425

unbearablec1449

agonizing1570

tormenting1575

cruciable1578

raging1590

tormentuous1597

pungent1598

racking1598

acute1615

wrenching1618

excruciating1664

grinding1681

excruciate1773

discruciating1788

unendurable1801

of bare sufferance1823

perialgic1893

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxlvii. 6 As wha say, vnsufferabil ware þat kald, if he lesid it noght.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xi. 10 Thanne Moyses herde the puple wepynge bi meynees,..and to Moyses it was seen a thing vnsuffrable [L. intoleranda].

1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 22 Thei wolen putten to a man confessid to hem, greuouse chargis and vnsuffrable.

1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. cxxiii. sig. G ij^v They were ashamed, that they dydde not abyde suche lyke labours, yea and moche more vnsufferable.

1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 8, in 2nd Pt. Herball An unsufferable raynye, windye, or colde weather.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 720 The high ridges..are vnsufferable for cold.

1657 T. Wall Comment on Times 53 [To] lie under the..dreadful apprehensions, or unsufferable strokes of divine wrath.

1729 R. Savage Wanderer ii. 50 Like noon-tide summer-suns the rays appear, Unsuff'rable, magnificent and near!

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) III. 202 An unsufferable, ill palated oily Juice, that will spoil all the Liquor.

1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xviii. 6 The king heard it in his palace of light unsufferable.

b. Of pain, grief, fear, etc.

ΚΠ

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. vii. 79 Grete sekenesse and..grete sorwes vnsuffrable.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Judith xiv. 17 Vnsuffrable drede and tremblyng felde doun on hem.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 40 Þe pacient feleþ as it war vnsufferable ychyng.

c1425 St. Christina xvi, in Anglia VIII. 125 She was stired of god vnto an vnsufferabil þriste.

c1445 R. Pecock Donet 71 For eesing of his vnsuffrable fleischli freelte.

1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) (new ed. ix. f. 194 ^v Conscience..worketh..vnsufferable torments,..to the condempnation of the ungodly.

1595 W. Covell Polimanteia S j b To my vnsufferable and vnpitied griefe.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 301 A torture unsufferable unto this young gentlewoman.

1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xxxii. 138 My fullness gives unsufferable Pain.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 261 The unsufferable Torment of the Swellings.

†3. Incapable of self-restraint. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons

unsufferablea1387

unmeasurablec1405

immoderatec1450

inordinatec1450

dissolutec1475

excessive1586

extravagant1600

painful1749

unforbearing1820

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 61 Þis was a swiþe evel man,..and he was unsuffrable of leccherie [L. libidinis impatientissimus].

†4. Not involving suffering. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. C vi They greuously erre, who hold opinion y^t our faultes ar pardoned through theyr vnsufferable & vnbloudy sacrificing of christes bodi.

†5. Incompatible. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible

repugnantc1443

unsufferablea1586

insociable1591

incompatible1592

incompossible1605

unsociable1611

irreconciliable1615

incompliable1625

uncompliable1626

incompassible1630

incompatible1641

inconsistent1656

incoherent1704

exclusivea1716

incombining1738

unassociable1816

inconjoinable1844

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Oo1^v Eternity, & Chaunce are things vnsufferable together.

†6. As adv. = unsufferably adv. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adverb]

unsufferablec1420

importably?c1425

unsufferablyc1440

intolerably1482

intolerable?1593

insufferably1625

unsupportably1664

insupportably1671

unbearably1809

unendurably1832

c1420 Prose Life Alex. 76 Than commanded Alexander þat þay schuld make many fyres. For it began for to be vnsufferable calde.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 77 Sometimes the Inck proves so unsufferable Pale, that [etc.].

Derivatives

unˈsufferableness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun]

intolerableness1579

insupportablenessa1586

insufferableness1592

intolerability1598

unsufferableness1611

unsupportableness1672

importableness1677

unbearableness1730

unendurability1858

unendurableness1894

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inpatibilita, vnsufferablenesse.

1677 A. Horneck Great Law of Consideration iv. 175 His passions..represent to his mind..the unsufferableness of the disgrace.

1679 J. Kid in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 2 There is something in a Christians condition, that can never put him without the reach of unsufferableness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	unsufferable
释义	unsufferableadj.adv. Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1b, 5b, and etymological note.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈsufferable. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. Incapable of being suffered with patience or equanimity; not to be tolerated or endured; going beyond all natural limits: a. Of injuries, wrongs, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adjective] untholelyc1225 untholinga1300 unsufferablea1325 untolerablea1382 importable1402 untholefula1425 unbearablec1449 unportablea1500 impassible1508 intolerablea1513 insupportable1530 insufferable1533 incomportable1574 impatient1590 intollerous1594 unsuffered1598 supportless1602 unsupportable1602 indurable1607 impatible1623 unbrookable1633 unsustainable1662 unendurable1801 impassive1828 punishing1833 thick1884 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 66 We undoinde so muche unsuffrable luere of oure poeple..stabblissez ant ordeinez [etc.]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 367/2 On-sufferabyl, or ontollerable, intollerabilis, insufferabilis. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 395 Ellis vnsufferable myscheuys of hasty domes wolde ofte falle. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xviii. 100 Þe haterent and vnsufferabil tyrannye of kingis. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxx. 65 We know no reason wherefore any man should yet imagin it an vnsufferable euill. 1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 301 To call them to accompt..for these unsufferable wrongs. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. ii. Rule 8 §30 The injustice may be frequent and unsufferable. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 69 Unsufferable wrong Cries to the Gods, and vengeance sleeps too long. 1763 Ld. Halifax in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 361 The Outrages..are most abominable and unsufferable. b. Of actions, conduct, qualities, etc. ΚΠ 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. D ii What an vnsufferable mockedge is this..of God. 1582–3 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 541 A power strange and unsufferabill to be in the persoun of ony inferior subject. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight v. sig.I3 Thine adulterat..lust, Shamefull and grosse and most vnsufferable. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋250 Unsufferable fallacies..are couched under these four. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 38. ⁋10 The unsufferable Affectation you are guilty of in all you say and do. 1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 18 The common unsufferable Cant of taking all Occasions to disparage the Heathen Philosophers. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. v. 27 Upon these vast accomplishments he had built an unsufferable degree of pride. c. Of persons. Also absol. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. viii. 5 Machabeus..was maad vnsuffreable to heithen men; forsothe the wrath of the Lord is conuertid in to mercye. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 267 Unsouerable ar thir pepille of Ingland. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 926 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 124 Yir birdis Ilkane Besocht natur to cess yat vnsufferable. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 118 The more that an ignorant man is lift vp vnto some excellencie of dignitie.., the more vnsufferable he is. 1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision sig. D7 All know (vnsufferable Man) they [sc. women] are..beyond compare. 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy i. i. 2 The pertest unsufferable Fool he ever saw. 2. Too distressing, severe, or painful to be borne; going beyond the limits of physical endurance: a. Of outward things. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment sharpc1000 grievousc1290 smartc1300 fellc1330 unsufferablea1340 keena1375 poignantc1390 rending?c1400 furiousc1405 stoutc1425 unbearablec1449 agonizing1570 tormenting1575 cruciable1578 raging1590 tormentuous1597 pungent1598 racking1598 acute1615 wrenching1618 excruciating1664 grinding1681 excruciate1773 discruciating1788 unendurable1801 of bare sufferance1823 perialgic1893 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxlvii. 6 As wha say, vnsufferabil ware þat kald, if he lesid it noght. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xi. 10 Thanne Moyses herde the puple wepynge bi meynees,..and to Moyses it was seen a thing vnsuffrable [L. intoleranda]. 1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 22 Thei wolen putten to a man confessid to hem, greuouse chargis and vnsuffrable. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. cxxiii. sig. G ij^v They were ashamed, that they dydde not abyde suche lyke labours, yea and moche more vnsufferable. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 8, in 2nd Pt. Herball An unsufferable raynye, windye, or colde weather. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 720 The high ridges..are vnsufferable for cold. 1657 T. Wall Comment on Times 53 [To] lie under the..dreadful apprehensions, or unsufferable strokes of divine wrath. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer ii. 50 Like noon-tide summer-suns the rays appear, Unsuff'rable, magnificent and near! 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) III. 202 An unsufferable, ill palated oily Juice, that will spoil all the Liquor. 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xviii. 6 The king heard it in his palace of light unsufferable. b. Of pain, grief, fear, etc. ΚΠ c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. vii. 79 Grete sekenesse and..grete sorwes vnsuffrable. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Judith xiv. 17 Vnsuffrable drede and tremblyng felde doun on hem. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 40 Þe pacient feleþ as it war vnsufferable ychyng. c1425 St. Christina xvi, in Anglia VIII. 125 She was stired of god vnto an vnsufferabil þriste. c1445 R. Pecock Donet 71 For eesing of his vnsuffrable fleischli freelte. 1557 W. Baldwin & T. Palfreyman Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) (new ed. ix. f. 194 ^v Conscience..worketh..vnsufferable torments,..to the condempnation of the ungodly. 1595 W. Covell Polimanteia S j b To my vnsufferable and vnpitied griefe. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 301 A torture unsufferable unto this young gentlewoman. 1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xxxii. 138 My fullness gives unsufferable Pain. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 261 The unsufferable Torment of the Swellings. †3. Incapable of self-restraint. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons unsufferablea1387 unmeasurablec1405 immoderatec1450 inordinatec1450 dissolutec1475 excessive1586 extravagant1600 painful1749 unforbearing1820 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 61 Þis was a swiþe evel man,..and he was unsuffrable of leccherie [L. libidinis impatientissimus]. †4. Not involving suffering. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. C vi They greuously erre, who hold opinion y^t our faultes ar pardoned through theyr vnsufferable & vnbloudy sacrificing of christes bodi. †5. Incompatible. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible repugnantc1443 unsufferablea1586 insociable1591 incompatible1592 incompossible1605 unsociable1611 irreconciliable1615 incompliable1625 uncompliable1626 incompassible1630 incompatible1641 incompatible1641 inconsistent1656 incoherent1704 exclusivea1716 incombining1738 unassociable1816 inconjoinable1844 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Oo1^v Eternity, & Chaunce are things vnsufferable together. †6. As adv. = unsufferably adv. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adverb] unsufferablec1420 importably?c1425 unsufferablyc1440 intolerably1482 intolerable?1593 insufferably1625 unsupportably1664 insupportably1671 unbearably1809 unendurably1832 c1420 Prose Life Alex. 76 Than commanded Alexander þat þay schuld make many fyres. For it began for to be vnsufferable calde. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 77 Sometimes the Inck proves so unsufferable Pale, that [etc.]. Derivatives unˈsufferableness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun] intolerableness1579 insupportablenessa1586 insufferableness1592 intolerability1598 unsufferableness1611 unsupportableness1672 importableness1677 unbearableness1730 unendurability1858 unendurableness1894 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inpatibilita, vnsufferablenesse. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law of Consideration iv. 175 His passions..represent to his mind..the unsufferableness of the disgrace. 1679 J. Kid in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 2 There is something in a Christians condition, that can never put him without the reach of unsufferableness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.adv.a1325
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