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Webster 1828 Edition


Unvenerable

UNVEN'ERABLE

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Adj.
Not venerable; not worthy of veneration.

Definition 2024


unvenerable

unvenerable

English

Adjective

unvenerable (comparative more unvenerable, superlative most unvenerable)

  1. 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.