Meanings
- not comparableNot acquirable; unacquirable.
She therefore concludes that 'there will be aspects of the TL [target language] that will be 'nonacquirable ( 160 ) .
2001, Marcel Bax, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Reflections on Language and Language Learning, page 2492 more examples
From this version of nature, in which the cold eradication oof useless variations was a necessary part of the striving for perfection, the Nazis dredged up such "natural laws" as the principle that "every action of the human being rests upon inalienable and nonacquirable hereditary characteristics."
2007, John Alexander Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940, page 262"Taste" tends to suggest a nonacquirable, probably inborn, and possibly aristocratic “je-ne-sais-quoi,” recalling the values of salon culture rather than those of an upstart proto-intelligent like Belinsky, for whom the pedagogical mission of criticism was of overriding importance.
2019, Anne Lounsbery, Life Is Elsewhere, page 114
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