Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being impracticable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.
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- noun The state of being
impracticable ;impracticability .
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- noun the quality of not being usable
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Examples
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There may be some who, in a disparaging tone, will at this stage of my confessions enter an accusation of impracticableness.
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There may be some who, in a disparaging tone, will at this stage of my confessions enter an accusation of impracticableness.
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It is better to bear the burden of impracticableness, than to stifle conviction and to pare away principle until it becomes more hollowness and triviality.
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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Dolly, and with her; and Mrs. Copley, in spite of chewing the cud of mortification at Dolly's impracticableness, was beguiled into forgetting herself.
The End of a Coil Susan Warner 1852
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No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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Mrs. Falconer was too well aware of the impracticableness of her daughter's temper to tell her upon this occasion the whole truth, even if her own habits would have permitted her to be sincere.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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I was even mad enough to think of venturing up the cavern again, but was restrained from the attempt by the certain impracticableness of it Then
Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732
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