indirigibility

noun

indirigibility

noun

Etymology From indirigible + -ity.

1

Obsolete, Rare The quality or state of being indirigible or unsteerable.

It is not generally recognised that complications of this kind arise solely through the indirigibility of tramcars.1906 January 4, “Dangerous Tram and Trap”, in Motor Traction, volume 2, page 12:
[…] extension of the tramway system which involves not only the permanent congestion of streets by reason of the indirigibility of the vehicles […]1906 July 14, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 65, page 772:

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Its success was natural enough, reflecting as it did and in reflecting magnifying, the hopes, fears, follies and prejudices of the ordinary middle-class man, and by focussing them all together upon any desired end achieving weight and power — if also the indirigibility — of an avalanche.1930, Oliver Madox Hueffer, "Cousins German", page 93:

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