a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., II. iii. 77. For euer Vnvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak’st vp the Princesse.
1616. Champney, Voc. Bps., 224. A Bishop howsoeuer vnuenerable he be,… So long as he is a Bishop,… suffereth not the losse of his Pastorall vocation.
1836. J. H. Newman, in Lyra Apost., 127. O aged blind Unvenerable!
1867. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 148. So excellent and noble a thing that even error cannot make it unvenerable.
