(UN-1 12, or f. prec.)
1662. T. Brooks, Crown & Glory of Christianity, 404. The Greeks call it an Adamant from its untameableness.
1790. Bewick, Hist. Quadrup., 144. The Rhinoceros … possesses all the properties ascribed to that animal,—rage, untameableness,… and immense strength.
1837. Carlyle, Misc., Diamond Necklace, xiv. Her grand quality is rather to be reckoned negative: the ‘untameableness’ as of a fly.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., 179. By his intensity, by his untamableness,… [Heine] is Hebrew.
