Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not supposable; incapable of being supposed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
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- adjective Incapable of being
supposed ;inconceivable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That fine old Fabius, General Scott, had no idea of flinging an army out broadcast into Virginia, and, in the insupposable case that it turned tail, leaving it no defended passage to run away by.
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I have seen actors at the Odéon, in the classic repertory, imperfect in their texts; a monstrously insupposable case at the Comédie Française.
The Théâtre Francais 1914
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Watering-place life is notoriously conducive to idleness of mind, and Bernard strolled for half an hour along the overarched avenue, glancing alternately at these two insupposable cases.
Confidence 1879
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It wouldn't for such a spectator have been altogether insupposable that, each so finely brown and so sharply spare, each confessing so to dents of surface and aids to sight, to a disproportionate nose and a head delicately or grossly grizzled, they might have been brother and sister.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1879
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It wouldn’t for such a spectator have been altogether insupposable that, each so finely brown and so sharply spare, each confessing so to dents of surface and aids to sight, to a disproportionate nose and a head delicately or grossly grizzled, they might have been brother and sister.
The Ambassadors 2003
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But as for our insupposable priest -- yes, I should say decidedly he ought to get out of it by all means. "
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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