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unsucceedable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + succeed + -able.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Not able or likely to succeed.
   • And therefore when in the tentation of Christ [Satan] played upon the fallacy, and thought to deceive the Author of truth, the method of this proceeding arose from the uncertainty of his divinity; whereof had he remained assured, he had continued silent; nor would his discretion attempt to unsucceedable a temptation. 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5:

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