inamiability en · NOUN
Etymology
From in- + amiability, after inamiable. Piecewise doublet of inamicability, inimicability, unamiability, and unamicability.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The quality of being inamiable.
Malkin, never perhaps the best tempered of men, was by this rendered a most ferocious cynic, and his inamiability was not softened by finding himself in the midst of military countrymen, whose habits, conversation, and amusements were every way uncongenial to his.
1825, [Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby], “[Il Critico.] Introduction.”, in The English in Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 161:Now the question which I would ask each thoughtful reader to raise in his own heart is “Is this Justice or Injustice? Amiability or Inamiability?”
1918, C[harles] G[eoffrey] L[loyd], “‘Are the English Race Fundamentally Inamiable or Superficiously?’”, in Warlike Snips and Snaps: Letters Written by Babu Piche Lal, B.A., from Mesopotamia, Bombay: The Times Press, →OCLC, page 97:We subjoin one other extract in which Mr. Cooley still further shows up his friends in Egypt. They were visiting the “Petrified Forest.” The scene must have been sufficiently amusing—provided it really did transpire, as Mr. Cooley informs us—but for all that, he might have spared the actors the publicity he thus gratuitously gives it, and spared his readers, moreover, the evidence of his own inamiability.
1842 December, “[Literary Review.] The American in Egypt. […] By James Ewing Cooley. […]”, in William C[arey] Richards, editor, The Orion: A Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art, volume II, number 2, Penfield, Ga.: […] [P]roprietors, →OCLC:This is no place for the defence of a vein for satire, nor for insisting on its utility; but we may observe that caricature becomes necessary in all scenic representations; and, insomuch as the reprover oversteps the exact truth of occurrences, in order to heighten their interest, and to make the wished-for impression, his cutting inamiability is usually met with flat, direct negation by the party castigated.
1830, Jon Bee, “An Essay on the Life, Genius, and Writings, of Samuel Foote, Esq.”, in The Works of Samuel Foote, Esq. With Remarks on Each Play, and an Essay […], volume I, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper […], →OCLC, pages lxxv–lxxvi:One has indigestion, scowls fiercely, tries to swallow large lumps of inamiability, and fears she is not sublime.
1866 November, “Invalidism”, in The Atlantic Monthly. […], volume XVIII, number CIX, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 605, column 1: