indestructibleadj.n.
/ɪndɪˈstrʌktɪb(ə)l/ That cannot be destroyed; incapable of destruction. Used substantively: an indestructible thing.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > not destroyed > indestructible
unquenchablea1382
inextinguible1412
undestroyablea1420
surec1475
inextinguishable1509
undelible1534
unperishable1538
irrefragable1562
inconsumptible1579
inquenchable1583
undefaceable1587
irrefringible1596
insuppressible1610
irrazable1622
unextinguishable1656
imperdible1660
indissolvable1660
indestructible1674
unannihilable1678
undestructible1807
undemolishable1837
unobliteratable1872
uneliminable1876
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > capability of being destroyed > indestructibility > an indestructible thing
indestructiblea1861
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. i. i. 27 The soul..is a simple substance and yet as real a substance as matter itself, which yet the adversaries affirm to be indestructible.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 480 The individuality of his [sc. man's] perceptive part rendering it indestructible by all natural powers.
1806 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) I. App. 524 [Carbon] is indestructible by any agent except fire in the open air.
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. lxv The bones, the most indestructible part of the human frame.
a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 17 My pair of these indestructible [sc. socks] will outlast my last legs.
1876 P. G. Tait Lect. Recent Adv. in Physical Sci. (ed. 2) xiv. 360 Energy is indestructible—it is changed from one form to another, and so on, but never altered in quantity.
1880 J. Ross Hist. Corea x. 332 The things used in the evening sacrifice are to be removed,..but spirits and indestructibles may remain.
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 76 Refreshful chatter, laughter, gailiard songs. So like Earth's indestructible they were.
Derivatives
indeˈstructibleness n. the quality of being indestructible; indestructibility.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > capability of being destroyed > indestructibility
unperishableness1648
unextinguishablenessa1660
indestructibility1671
indestructibleness1844
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vii. ii. 109 The indestructibleness of its [sc. the Church's] principles.
1870 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxiv. 378 The thought of the indestructibleness of the wicked in the fires of hell.
indeˈstructibly adv. in an indestructible way.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb] > indestructibly
unquenchably1576
inextinguishably1821
indestructibly1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 183/2 How indestructibly the Good grows, and propagates itself.
1865 Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 160/2 Their most transient blunders and follies are embalmed indestructibly in print.
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