| 释义 |
† indeˈfeatable, a. Obs.
Also -ible.
[f. in-3 + defeat v.]
Incapable of being defeated or undone; indefeasible; indefectible. Hence indefeataˈbility (-ibility).
(Possibly in quot. 1643 an error for indefeasable, -ible, in 1755 for next two words.)
1643T. Warmstry Answ. W. Bridges conc. War 15 That indefeatable power, and that incorruptible wisdome that is in God himselfe. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 53 Those [controversies] about free will,..predestination and reprobation, grace irresistible and indefeatible. Ibid. 55 The decisions of this factious synod [of Dort] in favour..of the irresistibility and indefeatibility of grace. |