unvanquishableadj.
Incapable of being vanquished or overcome.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > invincible
insuperablec1340
unvanquishablea1382
unexpugnable1382
invincible1412
unovercomablec1475
unvictable1533
unvincible1554
unvinceable1568
Achillean1579
unconquerable1598
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > not overcome or overwhelmed > that cannot be
insuperablec1340
unvanquishablea1382
unexpugnable1382
invincible1482
unsuperable1526
inexpugnablea1535
unvincible1554
impugnable1570
conquerless1595
invictivea1607
inaccessible?1611
unsubduable1611
insuppressivea1616
inexsuperable1623
undefeatablea1640
unconquerable1642
irreducible1858
tower-proof1858
insubduable1866
uncrushable1873
unwinnable1972
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. v. 20 He shal take the sheeld vnuenkusable.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vii. 43 Man has..stark curage vnvencusable.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xxi. f. 239 The vpholdyng stay of sounde affiance..to make vs vnuanquishable among so many dangers.
1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. xv. §3 Ouid faines Nisus his vnuanquishable fortune, to haue been seated in one haire.
1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. 162 He waged War with people..who were till then thought unvanquishable.
1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 76 Able to make some little Incroachments on that Liberty which seem'd unvanquishable.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 37 Toil and unvanquishable penury.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 7 He is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.
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