uncrossablenessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

uncrossableness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being uncrossable.

   Synonym: uncrossability

   Antonyms: crossability, (rare) crossableness

   • 1890 August 14, “Aberdeen”, in Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury, Maitland, N.S.W., published 1890 August 16, page [7], column 1:

     To think that the main northern road should be blocked to vehicular traffic by the uncrossableness of the Hunter for six months is simply scandalous, and doesn’t redound much to the credit of the vaunted energy of the Roads and Bridges Department.

   • 1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest Tradition about Jesus of Nazareth”, in Jesus and the Hope of the Poor, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, published 2009 July 1, →ISBN, section III (Jesus, Hope of the Poor), subsection 6 (The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus), page 28:

     The sharpness of the contrasts in the story reflects the depth of the gulf between rich and poor in the present life. Its uncrossableness and the extreme opposition between rich and poor explain the future torment of the rich.

   • 2007 August, Gregory Spencer, “Veils Unveiled”, in Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale, New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, →ISBN, part 1 (Taken, the Father), page 4:

     He reached out a hand to stop the storm. And when he did, he touched the veil; he felt its uncrossableness.

   • 2013, Chuck Miller, “for John”, in Parsecs to Go, Poems of Protest, Muscatine, Ia.: Prairie Rose Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     these reasons that run like a river between us give a certain poignancy and ache to the distance and irremediable uncrossableness of it