untriumphableadj.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] > not able to be won
unwinnablec1540
untriumphable1663
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 110 This bloud..Which now y' are bent to throw away In vain, untriumphable fray.
1768 Woman of Honor I. 161.
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adj.1663- to play the strumpet
- to play the the devil
- to play the the very devil
- to play the traveller
- to play the traveller upon
- to play the traveller upon a person
- to play the truant, -s
- to play the truant, s
- to play the unthrift
- to play the very buggane
- to play the very buggane with a person
- to play the very dickens
- to play the very dickens with
- to play the vixen
- to play the wag
- to play the wanton
- to play the wanton formerly also the the wanton's part
- to play the wanton formerly also the wantons
- to play the whole game
- to play the whore
- to play the wild
- to play the —— card
- to play the —— game
- to play thevarlet
- to play third fiddle