insusceptible
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Against this claim, Grotius attempted to shew that the sea was, from its nature, insusceptible of exclusive right; and that, if it were susceptible of it, England did not prove her title to it.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, 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
We find it strong, pliable, insusceptible to either heat or cold and to all appearances will be more durable than anything we have ever used.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James
The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms.
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter
They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason.
From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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