unpermissible

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But whether she cared a jot for him and his feelings he could not clearly make out, from the style of the hurried, ungrammatical sentences, crammed with abbreviations and unpermissible elisions.

From An American Politician by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

Tell me, did you never in your life experience a strong desire to cut loose for once from propriety--to do something thoroughly reckless, improper, unpermissible?

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

For not only did he find it piteous; but unseemly, unpermissible somehow, yet marvellously sweet, startling him out of all preconceived light diplomatic plans, plucking shrewdly at his complacently unawakened heart.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

And so it came about that it was found unpermissible to attribute all functions of orientation exclusively to the labyrinth.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst