unbrookably

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unbrookable +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unbrookably (comparative more unbrookably, superlative most unbrookably)

  1. In an unbrookable manner.
    • 1963, Julian N. Hartt, The Lost Image of Man, Louisiana State University Press, page 122:
      Life is reduced to the encompassing and perfectly adequate nourishing Mother and the unbrookably demanding Self.
    • 1989, German Politics and Society, numbers 16-18, page 7:
      If the main problem Weimar had faced was an unbrookably divergent national community that, given the additional burdens of reparations and depression, could not be politically represented with coherence, then the Federal Republic, by virtue above all of division and expropriations in the East, became a society sufficiently homogeneous for stability to be realized.
    • 2012 August 3, Daniel B. Yates, “Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! at Traverse Theatre”, in Exeunt:
      And while we get this real sense of the kind of respect that is not earned but runs unbrookably deep, the simple fact that “he is my father”; and these sneaking ideas that the dislocation between father and son; there is also the feeling that Thomas is slightly trepidatious of getting deep, perhaps wary of the power of representation he wields here over the old patriarch.