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(Unrehersabill,) Unrehersibil, -hairsable, Onrehersabill, adj. [Rehers(e v.] a. Unspeakable. b. Unrepeatable. —a. 1513 Doug. xi vi 72.
Our all the warld of ws hail the remanys Beyn punyst sor with onrehersabill [Ruddim. vnrehersibil] panys [L. infanda supplicia] —b. 1622 Crim. Trials III 519.
That pairt of the lybell inferrit be the persewaris repeiting thais odious and vnrehairsable speiches
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