a. (UN-1 7 b.)
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. viii. (1708), I. 353. Nature, having a fervent desire … to eternize, and continue them … unruinable.
1706. Watts, Horæ Lyricæ, II. 163. The spirit … flies upward, an undoubted guest Of the third heaven, th’ unruinable sky. Ibid. (a. 1740), Remnants of Time, ix. Wks. 1753, IV. 612. May the unruinable world be but my portion.
