untransportable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + transportable.
Adjective
[edit]untransportable (not comparable)
- Not transportable; that cannot be transported.
- 1838 July 24, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Literary Ethics. An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 166:
- But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
Translations
[edit]not transportable
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