inexpugnable

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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

Now I am driuen to make ready the fire, which resteth in the kindled match of your conceiptes, to batter the fort hitherto inexpugnable, for any assault that I can make.”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

It would indeed be strange and lamentable if the divorce between feeling and conviction—to adopt a popular classification—was not simply incidental to change, but was also an inexpugnable part of fundamental aspects of human life.

From Determinism or Free-Will? by Cohen, Chapman

We have here, in short, the sphere of what Matthew Arnold likes to call Aberglaube, legitimate, inexpugnable, yet doomed to eternal variations and disputes.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

To the women who envied her, to the gossips and backbiters, he opposed a nescience inexpugnable, unscalable as a wall of polished stone: but the mischief was, he equally ignored her sensitiveness.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir