unbetrayable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ betrayable.

Adjective[edit]

unbetrayable (comparative more unbetrayable, superlative most unbetrayable)

  1. Not able to be betrayed.
    • 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Miscellaneous Poems.] ‘Whereto art Thou Come’.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, page 185:
      So he betrays, / Not Truth, the unbetrayable, but himself: []
    • 1926, Hart Crane, “Voyages” VI in The Collected Poems of Hart Crane, New York: Liveright, 1946, p. 110,[1]
      The imaged Word, it is, that holds
      Hushed willows anchored in its glow.
      It is the unbetrayable reply
      Whose accent no farewell can know.
    • 1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 3, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:
      It is seven years, thought Sandy, since I betrayed this tiresome woman. What does she mean by “betray”? She was looking at the hills as if to see there the first and unbetrayable Miss Brodie, indifferent to criticism as a crag.