1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 9. Brought through manifold daungers, and vnto vnexpectable euents.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, V. § 4. 289. The difficulty of obtayning that we desire … rendreth the thing desperate and consequently vnexpectable.
1664. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., V. 30. The concatenation of like Successions … seems to make the end of sinning almost unexpectable.
1749. Byrom, Rem. (1857), II. II. 489. Your brother’s journey to Smithills was indeed unexpectable.
1825. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830), 27. One of the most unexpectable of all incidents.
1863. Hawthorne, Our Old Home (1879), I. 260. Our kind friend kept bringing out one unexpected and wholly unexpectable thing after another.
1892. Graphic, 16 April, 478/1. Where the unexpected, or rather unexpectable, occurred.
