Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being insupportable; insufferableness; the state of being beyond endurance.
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- noun The state of being
insupportable ;insufferableness .
Etymologies
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insupportable + -ness
Examples
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The Roman course wears an air of a more delicate acquiescence, draws the veil of a new contract over the change, and concedes the general insupportableness of mere community?
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He knew all about the sale of lands that forced small crofters off the lands their families had tended for hundreds of years, all about the dreadful conditions of penury and starvation in the cities, the simple insupportableness of life in Scotland in these days.
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