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
For even as "appearance" it has a definite and inexpugnable character of its own which cannot be destroyed by subsumption under the "standpoint of the whole," "the absolute good," the "over-individual values."
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
As a rule,"—he glanced around at his fellow-topers—"I pride myself that in head and legs I am inexpugnable.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Pleasure somewhere, at some time, to some being or beings, is an inexpugnable element of the conception" of moral aim.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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
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