† 1. Incapable of being moved; immovable; steady, firm, constant. Obs.
a. 1500. in Ratis Raving, etc., 11. The erde remanis euermare vnremouable.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 476. It still remaineth vnremouable, that a signe and the thing signified, be distinct things.
c. 1595. Capt. Wyatt, Dudley’s Voy. (Hakl. Soc.), 35. Caryinge soe great a majestie in his march with such unremovable resolucions in his proceedings.
a. 1642. Bedell, Erasmus, in Fuller, Abel Rediv. (1867), I. 91. He was of an unremoveable constancy.
1670. Walton, Lives, Wotton, 72. I … contracted with him an unremovable affection.
2. = IRREMOVABLE a. 1. Now rare.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. v. He manifested himself an unremoveable suiter to her daughter.
1614. Bp. Hall, Contempl., O. T., VIII. v. Their neernesse of abode was an unremoveable barre of peace.
a. 1680. Corbet, Non-conf. Plea (1683), 25. Unnecessary terms, that are unlawful to them by unremovable doubts of conscience.
a. 1740. Waterland, Sec. Def., Wks. 1823, III. 70. This … left the charge fixed and unremovable upon the Pagans.
1752. Carte, Hist. Eng., III. 27. The lord Areskine, his constant and unremoveable guardian.
1802. Sk. Paris, II. xlvii. 123. The pretended unremoveable rights.
Hence Unremovableness.
1611. Cotgr., Constance,… vnremoueablenesse.
1634. Bp. Hall, Contempl., Resurrection, 276. They bragd of the surenesse of the place, and unremoveablenesse of that load.
