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Inestimabil(l, adj. Also: -abyll, -able. [ME. inestymable (Chaucer), -estimable, L. inestimābilis.] Inestimable. — 1490 Irland Mir. II. 33/13.
For he tholit that passioun of deid be inestimable luf and cherite that he had to ws and our redempcioun 1513 Doug. x. Prol. 102.
Sweit Lord, thy self is sa inestimabill 1528 Lynd. Dreme 517.
Quhare God … ringis, in to his glore inestimabyll 1533 Bell. Livy I. 164/13.
All the pepill of Rome [war] rasit with inestimabil blythnes a1568 Bann. MS. 27 a/14.
The potent prince … Is cummyn … with ane inestimable licht a1570-86 Maitl. F. xvi. i.
The grit blythnes and ioy inestimabill
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