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inextirpable, a.|ɪnɛkˈstɜːpəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. inexstirpābilis (Pliny), f. in- (in-3) + exstirpāre to extirpate: cf. F. inextirpable (15–16th c.)]
That cannot be extirpated or entirely rooted out.
1623in Cockeram. 1673O. Walker Educ. i. 11 All these, indulged and accustomed, grow stronger, and at last inextirpable. 1838Chalmers Wks. XII. 137 An inextirpable disease.
Hence inexˈtirpableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |