Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not peaceable; quarrelsome.

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  • adjective Not peaceable.

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  • adjective not disposed to peace

Etymologies

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un- +‎ peaceable

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Examples

  • And therefore, such peace-makers as these before-mentioned do seldom do much greater good than to quiet their own consciences in the discharge of so great a duty, and to moderate some few, and save them from further guilt, and to leave behind them, when they are dead, a witness against a wilful, self-conceited, unpeaceable world.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Will, therefore, a compliance unto this length better our condition? will it deliver us from the severest reflections of being persons unpeaceable and intolerable?

    A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity 1616-1683 1965

  • "Woman," thought Nietzsche, "is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour."

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • From that time until the pair are forever united at the altar, it grows, and with marriage it begins to bring forth the unpeaceable fruits of endless dissensions.

    The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

  • Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in fact woman is ESSENTIALLY unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour.

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • With the same hungry heart, and unpeaceable breast.

    Lucile Owen Meredith 1861

  • That same stomachus cedere nescius found in most, is the thing that foments quarrels, and keeps men at such unpeaceable distances.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • Christians are factious and unpeaceable, so far they are no Christians.

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06. 1630-1694 1820

  • And yet it is too visible that many, who make a great profession of piety towards God, are very defective in moral duties; very unpeaceable and turbulent in their spirits, very peevish and passionate, very conceited and censorious, as if their profession of godliness did exempt them from the care and practice of Christian virtues.

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04. 1630-1694 1820

  • I. Israel sent a peaceable message to Sihon king of the Amorites (v. 21), but received an unpeaceable return, worse than that of the

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

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