unreprievable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + reprievable.
Adjective
[edit]unreprievable (comparative more unreprievable, superlative most unreprievable)
- Not capable of being reprieved.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood
References
[edit]- “unreprievable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.