[f. prec.] The state or quality of being uncontrollable.
Also, in recent use, uncontrollability.
1634. Bp. Hall, Contempl., N. T., IV. vii. Vices,… when they grow inveterate, have a strong plea for their abode and uncontroulableness.
1673. Cave, Prim. Chr., III. ii. 243. The Uncontrolableness of the Miracles performed in his Name.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xxx. 192. My charge upon him of unpoliteness and uncontroulableness.
1833. Carlyle, Misc. Ess., Diderot (1888), 62. With vehemence enough, with even a female uncontrollableness.
1862. Mill, Syst. Logic (ed. 5), II. 416. [It] cannot fail … to create a feeling of uncontrollableness in the former also.
