insusceptible
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These grave questions are as yet insusceptible of answer.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
Immunity.—Some persons are insusceptible to infection by certain diseases, from which they are said to enjoy a natural immunity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad’s ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained; it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front he became a railroad-scalper.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The same advantage in a greater degree is obtained by vaccination, even in the exceptional instances in which it fails to render the person altogether insusceptible to the disease.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles
Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless.
From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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