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Insufferabil(l, -abyll, a. [Cf. obs. F. insouffrable; e.m.E. -able (1586).] Not sufferable, insupportable, unbearable. — 1528 Lynd. Dreme 300.
Allace, our panis ar insufferabyll 1531 Bell. Boece II. 228.
The frute and cornis, throw insufferabil heitis of the simer, failyeit Id. Livy II. 173/15.
Nor ȝit the armye to be irkit with our ythand and insufferabil lauboure
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