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Webster 1913 Edition


Unpossibility

Un-posˊsi-bil′i-ty

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Noun.
Impossibility.
[R.]
“Utter unpossibility.”
Poe.

Definition 2024


unpossibility

unpossibility

English

Noun

unpossibility (countable and uncountable, plural unpossibilities)

  1. (now rare) Impossibility.
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:
      ‘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.’