impossibility
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impossibility englanniksi
Something that is impossible.
(ux)
(RQ:Milton Tetrachordon)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein) promised impossibilities, and performed nothing.
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Bantam|year_published=1963|chapter=8|page=123|url=https://archive.org/details/islandhuxl00huxl|passage=Breathing had become difficult, swallowing acutely painful, and sleep an impossibility—for whenever he off|dropped off, the patient would choke and wake up frantically struggling for air.
(quote-book)
The quality of being impossible.
1548, (w), ''The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke,'' London: Richard Grafton, Henry(nbs)VIII, year 15,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02595.0001.001
- After long reasonyng, there wer certain appoynted, to declare the impossibilite of this demaunde to the Cardinal,
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(RQ:Cleland Fanny Hill)
(RQ:Poe Pym)
{{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=George Orwell|title=The Road to Wigan Pier|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|year_published=1958|section=Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 61|url=https://archive.org/details/roadtowiganpier00geor/page/60
The state of being unable to do something.
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(quote-book) Hugh Latimer|location=London|publisher=John Day|section=Sermon 7 p. 45|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05143.0001.001
(quote-text)|title=Holy Observations, Lib. 1|location=London|publisher=Samuel Macham|section=59, p. 85|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02545.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1652|author=Thomas Fuller|title=A Comment on the Eleven First Verses of the Fourth Chapter of S. Matthew’s Gospel|location=London|publisher=George Eversden|section=Sermon 7, p. 105|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40659.0001.001