Meaning of unwishable | Babel Free

Definitions

That cannot or must not be wished.

not-comparable

Examples

“1653, John Goodwin, An Exposition of The Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, [1652, A Paraphrase], 1835, Baynes and Son, page 69, This interpretation, though it doth not suppose⟳ an eternal separation from Christ to be the matter⟳ of the Apostle's actual wish⟳, at one time or other, or upon one consideration or other, wherein it differs from the former; yet it rendereth it as a thing wishable, or which the Apostle could and would wish⟳, in case the two impediments specified, which render it de facto unwishable, were or could be removed out of the way.”

“Since it is his mother, the wish⟳ is unwishable, insupportable. How will he treat⟳ other women in the face⟳ of this unwishable wish⟳?”

“Instead it begins in mid-wishing with a negative fulfilment, and it tails off without an end⟳ into an indefinite future of wishing for what the unwished-for knowledge has rendered unobtainable, unwishable.”

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