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In literature, "inadmissible" has been used as a powerful qualifier to denote ideas, evidence, or actions that fall outside accepted norms or rules. For instance, in legal and judicial contexts, it is deployed to dismiss testimony or arguments as unacceptable, as seen in Solomon Northup’s account [1] and Cicero's discussion [2]. Philosophers and theorists similarly invoke it to reject certain premises or interpretations—Immanuel Kant [3] and Henry Sidgwick [4] employ the term to signal that a proposed idea lacks legitimacy within a structured system of thought. Authors like Edgar Allan Poe [5, 6] and Charlotte Brontë [7, 8] use "inadmissible" to describe elements that are conceptually or contextually out of place, while historical and geographic evaluations found in the works of Rizal [9] and Marco Polo [10, 11] reveal its application in critiquing unsuitable or implausible phenomena. Together, these examples illustrate a broad application of the term across genres, serving as a linguistic tool to designate anything that is fundamentally unacceptable or inapt for consideration.
  1. I was then offered as a witness, but, objection being made, the court decided my evidence inadmissible.
    — from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  2. But as this consequence is quite inadmissible, do not you either defend the cause from which it flows.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  3. Popularity may follow, but is inadmissible at the beginning.
    — from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
  4. In either of these cases the interpretation above suggested seems clearly inadmissible.
    — from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
  5. The former is totally inadmissible within doors.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  6. In truth, even strong steady lights are inadmissible.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  7. I watched them alight (carriages were inadmissible) amidst new and unanticipated splendours.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  8. if addressed to a pupil; to a teacher inadmissible.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  9. Likewise inadmissible is the objection offered by some regarding the imperfect culture of the majority of the inhabitants.
    — from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal
  10. This seems to me geographically and otherwise quite inadmissible.
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
  11. is inadmissible.
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano

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