Unserviceableness

(UN-¹ 12; cf. prec.)

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1611. Cotgr., Inutilité,… vnseruiceablenesse.

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1640. Sanderson, Serm. (1681), II. 173. The unserviceableness of any thing to edification.

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1683. Pepys, Diary at Tangier, in Life, etc. (1841), I. 452. The unserviceableness of the Mole by reason of those winds.

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a. 1832. Bentham, Draught of Code, Wks. 1843, IV. 399. How many bad and unserviceable ones have, by this very unserviceableness, become popular!

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1864. Miss Yonge, Trial, II. 20. The unserviceableness of his maimed arm.

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