insusceptible

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This belief is insusceptible of proof, but rests entirely upon our religious feelings and is rooted purely in our emotional life.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

His soul, indurated by crime, was as insusceptible to the soothing influence of such aspects, as the cold rocky cavern where he had harbored, was impenetrable to the noonday blaze.

From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore

Seen in the afternoon when the setting sun is casting long shadows over the landscape, the scene in the Tjidani Valley is calculated to arouse the artistic senses of the most insusceptible.

From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Reid, Thomas H.

I am sure that he would be very insusceptible to proper domestic influences.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

But the expression "all Indians," besides being insusceptible of methodical classification, involves hearsay, which is not the kind of authority desired in a serious study.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick