a. [UN-1 7 b and 5 b. For pronunciation see note to ACCEPTABLE a.] Not acceptable.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 2/2. Vn Acceptabylle, ingratus,… non acceptabilis.

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1540.  Wyatt, in Flügel, Neuengl. Lesebuch, I. 349. I can not ellis se what shold move this rigour … onles I peraventure be vnacceptable vnto hym.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., II. iv. § 5. To the author and God of our nature, how shal any operation proceeding in naturall sort, be in that respect vnacceptable?

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1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ., 27. A vaine worship: and therefore vnacceptable altogether to the Lord.

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1697.  Bentley, Phal. (1699), 83. It will not be unacceptable to the Reader, to see some of it here corrected.

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1710.  Prideaux, Orig. Tithes, v. 241. The new Laws of King Henry being very unacceptable to the English.

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1753.  Warburton, in Harris, Hardwicke (1847), II. 481. No favours from such a hand could be unacceptable.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxi. IV. 551. He still called himself a Whig, and was not unacceptable to many of the Whigs.

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1880.  Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 165. An honourable son-in-law could not be unacceptable to him.

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  Hence Unacceptableness; Unacceptably adv.

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1648.  Hexham, II. On-aengenaemheydt, *Un-acceptableness.

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1660.  Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., I. (1682), 72. To correct the unacceptableness of his story.

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1697.  Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1709), 2. I hope this Alteration does not arise from any natural Antipathy I have to Sense; but from the unacceptableness of the Subject I am upon.

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1873.  Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls, xxi. A tone timid with an apprehension of some possible unacceptableness.

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1648.  Hexham, II. On-aengenaemlick, *Vn-acceptably.

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1828–.  in various Dicts.

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