impossibility
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impossibility englanniksi
Something that is impossible.
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(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.
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