1483. Cath. Angl., 2/2. Vn Acceptabylle, ingratus, non acceptabilis.
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.
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?
1634. Canne, Necess. Separ., 27. A vaine worship: and therefore vnacceptable altogether to the Lord.
1697. Bentley, Phal. (1699), 83. It will not be unacceptable to the Reader, to see some of it here corrected.
1710. Prideaux, Orig. Tithes, v. 241. The new Laws of King Henry being very unacceptable to the English.
1753. Warburton, in Harris, Hardwicke (1847), II. 481. No favours from such a hand could be unacceptable.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxi. IV. 551. He still called himself a Whig, and was not unacceptable to many of the Whigs.
1880. Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 165. An honourable son-in-law could not be unacceptable to him.
Hence Unacceptableness; Unacceptably adv.
1648. Hexham, II. On-aengenaemheydt, *Un-acceptableness.
1660. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., I. (1682), 72. To correct the unacceptableness of his story.
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.
1873. Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls, xxi. A tone timid with an apprehension of some possible unacceptableness.
1648. Hexham, II. On-aengenaemlick, *Vn-acceptably.
1828. in various Dicts.