unloveability

She had seen a woman, cut off from the world by ramparts first of suffering, then of high rank, and lastly of unloveability, stretching out thin hands more passionately every day as the hot fire raged within her, crying out to the fancy that her own mind had wrought on the clouds to come down and be incarnate and take her to himself, and compensate her for the long years of isolation.

1906, Robert Hugh Benson, “Mary the Queen Takes a Husband”, in The Queen’s Tragedy, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. […], →OCLC, book I, section 3, page 75

Parents who recognise that the basic attitudes of their child were acquired by his own efforts, and that he would not have been born, to them or to anyone else, unless at least some of these attitudes needed to be redirected, will not be surprised when they find that certain aspects of his character are unloveable. But if they believe that his unloveability is either inherited through them, or due to their ineptitude as parents, they will inevitably feel guilty, and probably try to foist their guilt on each other.

1967, Denys Kelsey, “Parenthood”, in Joan Grant, Denys Kelsey, Many Lifetimes, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195

Her unloveability was a relief. After so many new contacts and sharings, she was almost a stranger again, an impression that was strengthened by the lack of her half of desire and he felt deceitful when, innocently, she implied the resumption of their matings, half-jokingly warning him against letting his Irish frustration lead him into some arp woman’s bed.

1968, Anthony C. West [pseudonym; Cathcart Anthony Muir West], chapter 3, in As Towns with Fire, London: MacGibbon & Kee, →ISBN, page 150