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unˈvanquishable, a. Also 4 unuenkus-, 5 Sc. unvencusable. [un-1 7 b.] Incapable of being vanquished or overcome.
1382Wyclif Wisd. v. 20 He shal take the sheeld vnuenkusable. 1456Sir G. Haye Bk. Knychthede vii. (S.T.S.) 56 Man has..stark curage unvencusable. 1561T. N[orton] tr. Calvin's Inst. iii. xxi. 239 The vpholdyng stay of sounde affiance..to make vs vnuanquishable among so many dangers. 1613Jackson Creed i. xv. §3 Ouid faines Nisus his vnuanquishable fortune, to haue been seated in one haire. 1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 162 He waged War with people..who were till then thought unvanquishable. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 76 Able to make some little Incroachments on that Liberty which seem'd unvanquishable. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iii. 120 Toil and unvanquishable penury. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ii, He is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence. |