unˈsufferably, adv.
[un-1 11 and 5 b.]
1. Intolerably; unendurably.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 367/2 On-sufferably.., intollerabiliter. 1644 Prynne & Walker Fiennes's Trial App. 20 Captain Bagnall..was baffled unsufferably by the Defendant..before the Councell. 1661 Pepys Diary 31 May, [His mother] being so unsufferably foolish and simple. 1702 Echard Eccl. Hist. i. vi. 138 Finding his Soul unsufferably oppress'd. 1727 De Foe Hist. Appar. iv. (1840) 28 Saturn and Jupiter are uncomfortably dark, unsufferably cold. |
† 2. Without suffering. Obs.—1
| 1548 Geste Pr. Masse C vj b, We ar already redemed..by y⊇ ones offering of christ neuer to be reuyued eyther sufferablye or vnsufferably, bloudely or vnbloudely. |