dislikelihood
English
editEtymology
editFrom dis- + likelihood.
Noun
editdislikelihood (uncountable)
- (obsolete) improbability
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- “ But consider , Chiffie , the dislikelihood of her pleasing , ” said the noble courtier.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dislikelihood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)