unruinableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈruːᵻnəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈruənəb(ə)l/ That cannot be ruined.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition
unbrokena1300
unbrokea1325
unperisheda1400
upstandingc1450
unviolate1548
uncancelled1557
yet1608
voidless1642
indissolved1659
standing1673
unruinablea1684
unworn1748
decayless1828
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 278 It is the glory of this great Master-builder, that the whole Fabrick, that is of his building, be unruinable.
1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ ii. 163 The spirit..flies upward, an undoubted guest Of the third heaven, th' unruinable sky.
1837 J. Sheppard Autumn Dream v. 129 This cirque,—in truth Colossal, and unruinable too.
1937 T. Wolfe in New Yorker 29 May 22/1 A man—a kind of unruinable ruin, with the pale-blue eyes that looked as if they had been slightly poached in alcohol.
2013 E. Scarboro My Foreign Cities vi. 83 He was ruining otherwise unruinable moments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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