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Webster 1828 Edition
Unvenerable
UNVEN'ERABLE
,Adj.
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unvenerable
unvenerable
English
Adjective
unvenerable (comparative more unvenerable, superlative most unvenerable)
- Not venerable.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund
- Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order.
- 2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, in New York Times:
- This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable age of 54.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund