a. (and sb.). Also 7 unin-. [UN-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of enduring; † impatient of.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 79. In battell they are fearlesse,… and in service unindurable of temporizing.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 314. If it be soft, broken granite … will prove a useless because an unendurable surface.
2. That cannot be endured; insufferable.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, XII. xviii. No eye could penetrate That unendurable excess of light.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxiv. (1856), 303. The sensation most unendurable … is a pain between the eyes and over the forehead.
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, x. This ceaseless sense of unendurable reproach.
b. sb. An insufferable person.
1826. F. Reynolds, Life & Times, II. 84. That my friend Andrews may not be considered as one of these uneudurables, I will yet add another short anecdote of him.
Hence Unendurability.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. viii. Some excessive pressure of that lisping snuffling unendurability. Ibid. (1862), XII. xi. Such injustices and unendurabilities.
