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inexpugnable

[in-ik-spuhg-nuh-buhl] / ˌɪn ɪkˈspʌg nə bəl /


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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 William Painter

For some months Durtal had been trying to reassemble the fragments of a shattered literary theory which had once seemed inexpugnable, and Des Hermies's opinions troubled him, in spite of their exaggerated vehemence.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

Ah, but such and such Beliefs of yore seemed inexpugnable.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

This, then, is the inexpugnable objection to the ethical instruction of children: the end which should be sought is performance, not knowledge, and we cannot by supplying the latter induce the former.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer




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