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Definition of Impracticableness

1. Noun. The quality of not being usable.

Definition of Impracticableness

1. n. The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

Definition of Impracticableness

1. Noun. The state of being impracticable; impracticability. ¹

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Literary usage of Impracticableness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Impassable (as a road) impracticableness, ж. Impracticability. Imprecate, va I. Invoke (a curst or sotm 2. Hard to deal with, hard to get along with, ..."

2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs. Indeed, the worst imputation ..."

3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs. Indeed, the worst imputation ..."

4. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"... and it required the actual teaching of events to convince them of the impracticableness of such a policy. During this interim period of diplomacy, ..."

5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"From the impracticableness of their language as an organ of poetical expression, the French seem early to have been driven to the necessity of ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
""Truly, Gentlemen, having this discourse concerning the impracticableness of the thing, the bringing in of neuters, and such as had deserted this Cause, ..."

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