Dictionary

objectional en · ADJ

Etymology

From objection + -al.

Meanings

1. objectionable
   • There is much talk of their objectional features and dangers for the established order of things. 1919, Rafael Palma, The Woman and the Right to Vote:
   • But the question is, whether those Darwinians who drew these conclusions were by their scientific investigations obliged to draw them, or whether they did not rather reach their religious and ethical view of the world by quite other ways, and whether they did not in a wholly arbitrary and irresponsible manner make extensive use of Darwinism in this anti-religious and ethically objectional direction--a fact which we shall try to prove in the last part of our investigation. 1883, Rudolf Schmid, The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality:
   • The Puritan toleration lasted six years, and included all but Papists, Prelatists and those who held objectional doctrines. 1917, James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers:
   • The difficulty in all these cares is to steer clear of some objectional theory. 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:

Forms

Deriveds

unobjectional