untenantableadj.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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undwellablea1382
unhabitablea1382
inhabitablec1400
uninhabitable1448
unhospital1570
unhospitable1612
inhospitable1616
scurrile1632
unreceivable1634
dishabitable1642
disinhabitable1660
untenantablea1661
unliveable1834
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Essex 347 Winchester Castle was..ordered to be made Untenable; but the over-officious malice of such who executed the Order (wilfully mistaking the word) made it Untenantable.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 141/1 400 houses..destroyed, or rendered untenantable.
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 274 They may so abound with fleas as to become untenantable.
1833 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics vii. 64 The apparently frozen and untenantable regions in the neighbourhood of the pole.
1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 208 Beds untenantable, charges unconscionable, is the state of things now as then.
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