insusceptible

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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

The plant next, though plastic in its elements, is comparatively insusceptible of change.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

The atmosphere of such a town would be like that of the country, insusceptible of the miasmata which produce yellow fever.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

We speak of persons as susceptible or insusceptible to music as we speak of good and poor conductors of electricity; and the analogy implied here is particularly apt and striking.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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