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inconvincible, a. (n.)|ɪnkənˈvɪnsɪb(ə)l|
[in-3.]
Incapable of being convinced; not open to conviction.
1674Govt. Tongue xi. §9 (1684) 162 None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §19 There is nothing so dogmatical and inconvincible as one of these fine things, when it sets up for free-thinking. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. i, The Commons are inconvincible, the Noblesse and Clergy irrefragably convincing. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. v. 14, I am not inconvincible by any kind of evidence.
b. as n. An inconvincible person.
1845A. M. Hall Whiteboy i. 3 You are one of the ‘inconvinceables’.
Hence inconvinciˈbility; inconˈvincibly adv.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vii. 27 Yet is it not much lesse injurious unto knowledge obstinately and inconvincibly [ed. 1658 inconvincedly] to side with any one. 1882W. M. Williams Science in Short Ch. 55 With all the conservative inconvincibility of a born and bred Englishman. |