unreckonable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Jerichow, Mecklenburg, is Johnson’s answer to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County: a setting, both mythic and mundane, for interlocking novels that aspire to a historical reckoning but finally find history unreckonable.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2015
What right had she to say that the world-mind was in error and she normal—she and the unreckonable Madame Nestor?...
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
This tree is of unreckonable antiquity; so old, that in a record of the time of Edward IV. it is styled the yew tree of Braithwaite Green.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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