incomportable

incomportable

English

Etymology

in- +‎ comportable

Adjective

incomportable (comparative more incomportable, superlative most incomportable)

1. (rare) Not comportable; intolerable; inconsistent; unsuitable; unendurable.
   • 2004, Richard C. Prust, At the Interface - Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief - Probing the Boundaries, Rodopi Publishing - Amsterdam & New York - Printed in the Netherlands, page 43

     In that case our incorrigibly incomportable courses would make it impossible for me to count both your course and mine as moral courses of action.

   • 1994, Department of Philosophy, The Personalist Forum - Volumes 10 to 13, The Furman University Press - Originally: The Michigan University Press, page 154

     Under the most likely scenario, they are incomportable as he presently carries them forward.

   • 1750, Baron John Somers Somers, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects: But Chiefly such as Relate to the History and Constitution of these Kingdoms - Selected from an Infinite Number in Print and Manuscript, in the Royal Cotton, Sion, and Other Public, as Well as Private Libraries; Particularly that of the Late Lord Somers - Revised by Eminent Hands - Volume 2, Published and Printed by A. M'Culloh & F. Cogan at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, page 80

     And being from the beginning greivous, and incomportable, in time it discovered it selse to be but weak.

   • 1845, John Campbell Baron Campbell, ‎Mrs. Hardcastle (Mary Scarlett Campbell), The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England - Volume 3, The Michigan State University Press, page 313

     He could not flatly refuse them, although it was said to be no new device to shove men out of their places by contriving incomportable hardships to be put upon them, and after bespeaking the succession by officious undertaking to do all that was required to break the condition of advancement.