a. (UN-1 7 b.)
In common use from c. 1800.
1793. A. Geddes, Addr. to Public, 3. A New Translation, that should be unobjectionable to my brethren of the R. Catholic communion.
1794. Paley, Evid. III. vi. ¶ 5. There are few cases in which … we cannot suppose something more perfect, and more unobjectionable, than what we see.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispensations (1823), II. 152. A safe and unobjectionable medium through which to prove the divine legation of Moses.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, II. iv. 66. His conduct was unobjectionable.
Hence Unobjectionableness; Unobjectionably adv.
1828–32. Webster, s.v., Unobjectionably.
a. 1849. Poe, E. B. Browning, Wks. 1865, III. 411. The former poem is purely imaginative; the latter is unobjectionably because unobtrusively suggestive of a moral.
1844. Standard, 1 Jan., 4/6. His opponents will increase their zeal and animosity in proportion to their perception of the unobjectionableness of his measures, [etc.].
1878. W. Walker, Life Bp. Gleig, vii. 299. The Canonical unobjectionableness of the Bishop-elect.
