c. 1550. Coverdale, Bk. Death, I. viii. 28. Among all thinges, most vndurable and most frayle is mannes lyfe.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xlix. 530. A rawe, weake,… vndurable, and soone souring licour.
1650. Arnway, Tablet, 107. All unmeasurable vice is undurable.
1721. R. Keith, trans. T. à Kempis, Vall. Lillies, xxx. 93. All temporal Things are defective and undurable.
1886. Dicey, England’s Case, 65. As undurable as Grattan’s Constitution of 1782.
Hence Undurableness.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongeduerigheyt, Vndurablenesse.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent. 7. Its undurableness and doubtful efficacy.
