Unsufferably

adv. [UN-¹ 11 and 5 b.]

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1. Intolerably; unendurably.

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c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 367/2. On-sufferably…, intollerabiliter.

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1644. Prynne & Walker, Fiennes’s Trial, App. 20. Captain Bagnall … was baffled unsufferably by the Defendant … before the Councell.

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1661. Pepys, Diary, 31 May. [His mother] being so unsufferably foolish and simple.

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1702. Echard, Eccl. Hist., I. vi. 138. Finding his Soul unsufferably oppress’d.

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1727. De Foe, Hist. Appar., iv. (1840), 28. Saturn and Jupiter are uncomfortably dark, unsufferably cold.

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† 2. Without suffering. Obs.^–1

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1548. Geste, Pr. Masse, C vj b. We ar already redemed … by y^e ones offering of christ neuer to be reuyued eyther sufferablye or vnsufferably, bloudely or vnbloudely.

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