unpermissible
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + permissible.
Adjective
[edit]unpermissible (comparative more unpermissible, superlative most unpermissible)
- Not permissible.
- 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo[1]:
- For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.
- 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard[2]:
- For not only did he find it piteous; but unseemly, unpermissible somehow, yet marvellously sweet, startling him out of all preconceived light diplomatic plans, plucking shrewdly at his complacently unawakened heart.