Unpossibility

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Impossibility. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "‘It would be a matter of utter unpossibility,’ replied Legs, […] ‘to stow away in my hold even one-fourth part of that same liquor which your majesty has just mentioned.’"

Example

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"‘It would be a matter of utter unpossibility,’ replied Legs, […] ‘to stow away in my hold even one-fourth part of that same liquor which your majesty has just mentioned.’"

Etymology

From un- + possibility.

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