inapproachable
Americanadjective
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Origin of inapproachable
First recorded in 1820–30; in- 3 + approachable
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If you hear that he is bold and fearless, that is true; and if you are told that he is shy and wary and inapproachable, that is also true.
From Wilderness Ways by Copeland, Charles
Coleridge was aware that Voltaire, in common with every Frenchman until the present generation, held it as a point of faith that the French drama was inapproachable in excellence.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
How many blossoms of beautiful emotions has Goethe plucked, as it were, in passing by; to how many women's hearts did his wanderings bring death, like the approach of the inapproachable.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
So saying, Barbesieur shouldered his gun, whistled to his dogs, and went off to the chase; while Strozzi, his eyes on the dial of the clock, awaited the hour for visiting his inapproachable wife.
From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Was she not something like these pure, distant snowy pinnacles, inapproachable and repellent, with icy-cold breath which petrified all lips that drew too near to them?
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba
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