a. (UN-1 7 b.)
Freq. from c. 1865. Also, in recent use, unrea·chableness.
1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, V. (1622), 456. As their course neuer alters, so is there nothing done by the vnreachable ruler of them, but hath an euerlasting reason for it.
1802. Southey, in Robberds, Mem. (1843), I. 436. I would not remove to an unreachable distance from Herefordshire.
1846. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. I. v. § 13. The apparent, though unreachable, nearness and promise of them.
Hence Unreachably adv.
1881. Palgrave, Vis. Eng., 247. The … brimming jars In fiendish mock borne past their dungeon bars, Upheld unreachably high.
