a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. x. My ruin being but by one unrelieveable.
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love, v. (1659), 39. No degree of Distress is unrelievable by his power.
1676. Temple, Lett., Wks. 1720, II. 420. Finding the Swedes weak, divided, and unrelieveable by France.
1820. Bentham, Mem., Wks. 1843, X. 517. Communicate not to a friend … vexations of yours unrelievable by him.
1898. Daily News, 29 July, 2/6. No operative procedure should be suggested … until the case had been … found to be unrelievable by other means.
Hence Unrelievableness.
1654. ‘Palæmon,’ Friendship, 12. The unrelievablenesse of our bad condition.
