impracticableness
- a word derived from impracticable.
Example Sentences
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After various private adventures he came into his property and volunteered in the service of Spain, where he failed, as usual, from impracticableness.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George
No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.
From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George
St. Leger and Rupert laughed at Dolly, and with her; and Mrs. Copley, in spite of chewing the cud of mortification at Dolly's impracticableness, was beguiled into forgetting herself.
From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan
Social embarrassments arise not from the uncertainty and impracticableness of the path, but from the crossways of choice and the perplexity of the scholastic ass between his two bundles of hay.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
It is better to bear the burden of impracticableness, than to stifle conviction and to pare away principle until it becomes more hollowness and triviality.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
