inexpugnable
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Etymology
Origin of inexpugnable
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin inexpugnābilis, equivalent to in- in- 3 + expugnābilis ( expugnā ( re ) to take by storm ( ex- ex- 1 + pugnāre to fight) + -bilis -ble )
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But there is no mistaking the real heartbreak and waste that are Hage’s material, or his outrage at the most costly, terrible and seemingly inexpugnable qualities of humanity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
Robbed of the inexpugnable shelter of the Casa Riego, she, too, was made to look into the depths; upon the animalism, the lusts, and the reveries of that sordid, vermin-haunted crowd.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
A fourth inexpugnable and influential stratum will in all probability be formed by the middle-class landowners and the substantial peasants.
From The New Society by Arthur Windham
Amidst all the changeable in us which passes and is forgotten, there is something which stays and is inexpugnable.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
This is an ancient, shrewd, and inexpugnable position.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
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