intolerableness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Yet the whole intolerableness of the practice will center in the rule for exclusion of pupils from these examinations because of school failure.
From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Francis P. Obrien
The intolerableness of this moral condition poisons the beauty which continues to be felt.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
And there came the sense of the madness of the universe and the intolerableness of life, if the end of all heroism was but that—nothingness and corruption.
From The Great Discovery by Norman Maclean
It was the solemnity, Peregrine assured me, that brought back all the intolerableness of the preachings at home, and awoke the same demon.”
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head.
From Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
