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indirigibility en · NOUN

Etymology

From indirigible + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare, uncountable) The quality or state of being indirigible or unsteerable.
    • […] extension of the tramway system which involves not only the permanent congestion of streets by reason of the indirigibility of the vehicles […] 1906 July 14, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 65, page 772:
    • Its success was natural enough, reflecting as it did and in reflecting magnifying, the hopes, fears, follies and prejudices of the ordinary middle-class man, and by focussing them all together upon any desired end achieving weight and power — if also the indirigibility — of an avalanche. 1930, Oliver Madox Hueffer, "Cousins German", page 93:
    • It is not generally recognised that complications of this kind arise solely through the indirigibility of tramcars. 1906 January 4, “Dangerous Tram and Trap”, in Motor Traction, volume 2, page 12: