a. (UN-1 7 b.)
Hence, in recent use, unmarketability, -ableness.
1654. in Manchester Crt. Leet Rec. (1887), IV. 112. Roger Royle of Eccles for sellinge vnmarkettable Beefe.
1776. Ann. Reg., Chron., 139/2. A parcel of hops … badly cured, and, on that account, unmarketable.
1800. G. G. Stonestreet, Portentous Globe, 33. Their customers would be seduced from them by artifice as well as power—their trade would be rendered unprofitable—their shares unmarketable, and thus the GLOBE would in a few years obtain possession of that MONOPOLY.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., iv. His own ill-favoured person, which was unmarketable, escaped without injury.
1885. Sir W. V. Field, in Law Times’ Rep., LII. 654/1. So as to render the property unmarketable.
