insolubleness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editinsolubleness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility.
- 1672, Robert Boyle, “[Tracts. […].] An Hydrostatical Discourse, Occasioned by the Objects of the Learned Dr. Henry More, against Some Explications of New Experiments Made by Mr. Boyle; and Now Published by Way of Preface to the Three Ensuing Tracts. Chapter V.”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume III, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section II, page 281, column 1:
- But that vve may the more diſtinctly conſider this grand argument, […] it vvill be convenient to obſerve, that it does, at once, both propoſe a queſtion, and contain an objection, grounded upon the ſurmiſed inſolubleneſs of that queſtion.
Further reading
edit- “insolubleness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.