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
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 Keeling, Annie E.
Here in Faust was another and a nobler Werther seeking the infinite; here was another Prometheus, a Titan shackled yet unsubduable.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
He who perceives their pale lineaments in that wide dispersion, the horizon of the sea, feels himself in presence of an unsubduable power.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
Plants spring up from the earth, and grow, and blossom at your feet, and you look on with delight, and an unsubduable wonder, and in a heedless moment you ask what is life?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
