impassable
adjective
not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc..
impassability
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a word derived from
impassable.
Example Sentences
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The muscles of Jehan le Loup's face twitched for a moment, but he clinched his fingers tightly to restrain himself and answered with a surly impassability, "How should I know, my lord?"
From If I Were King by Justin McCarthy
But we were not as sorry to leave the basha as we might have been, and the reports of impassability substantiated themselves before we had got a mile out.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
It is just a trackless wilderness, claiming thoroughfare by reason of the impassability of the rest of the country in that region.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
"Under the edicts, sire, of Cardinal Richelieu," returned D'Artagnan, with his usual impassability.
From Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas père
The loss of this covering is attended by an habitual impassability, by influences against which we were intended to be guarded.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
