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unvenerable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + venerable.

Meanings

1. Not venerable.
   • This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable age of 54. 2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, in New York Times:
   • Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order. 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

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