immovable
adjective
incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
immovableness
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a word derived from
immovable.
Example Sentences
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"This immovableness is quite astonishing!" thought Captain Hull.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
And Mary with that quiet immovableness that sometimes takes possession of those gentle, pliable, unquestioning women, replied that she was sorry, but she wouldn’t sign the papers.
From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman
The highest demand of the Parnassian school, impassibilité, an immovableness as of bronze, is the antithesis of his stormy temperament, which drives him along to a wild rhythm, not to harmony.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
Ah! if you could have witnessed her dignity, her wisdom, her grace, her compassionate immovableness, you'd never think of her as the little Harper girl again.
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
"Tis that I am sick of men's immovableness and deafness to reason."
From Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Sir John Francis Davis
