unpermissible

Example Sentences

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But it was his manner of discussion that I considered unpermissible.

From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Leacock, Stephen

And why, once again, should he have felt convinced that the ultimate nature of the clergyman's great experiment was impious, fraught with a kind of heavenly danger, "unpermissible?"

From The Human Chord by Blackwood, Algernon

In the innocence of his heart this abbé regarded the rebellion of Luther less as an unpermissible than as an inexplicable act.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

It seemed to me unpermissible to desire, for aesthetic reasons, to see the restoration of an ecclesiastical régime, with its remorseless system of oppression.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

He weighed man's knowledge, man's freedom of action, man's standards of the permissible and unpermissible as against those of this maiden, whose heart was at once so much and so little awake.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas