untameablenessn.
The quality of being untameable.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun] > quality of being untameable
untameableness1662
tamelessness1816
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > undomesticated > state or condition > of being unable to be tamed
untameableness1790
1662 T. Brooks Crown & Glory of Christianity 404 The Greeks call it an Adamant from its untameableness.
1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 144 The Rhinoceros..possesses all the properties ascribed to that animal,—rage, untameableness,..and immense strength.
1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace xiv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 182/1 Her grand quality is rather to be reckoned negative: the ‘untameableness’ as of a fly.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 179 By his intensity, by his untamableness,..[Heine] is Hebrew.
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