subdue
verb (used with object)
to conquer and bring into subjection.
unsubduable
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a word derived from
subdue.
Example Sentences
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Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet, in the clefts of it, fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers.
From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Joseph A. Seiss
My Belief in a special Providence grows yearly stronger, unsubduable, impregnable: however, you see all the mad increase of entanglement I have got to strive with, and will pity me in it.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers!
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
Such was the "unsubduable old Roman," Walter Savage Landor, a contemporary of Byron and Wordsworth, who long outlived them, dying in 1864.
From Great Britain and Her Queen by Annie E. Keeling
