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indefectibility|ɪndɪfɛktɪˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. next: see -ity. Cf. F. indéfectibilité (17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] The quality of being indefectible; exemption from liability to failure or decay.
1624Bp. Hall True Peace-Maker Wks. (1627) 541 Hee alone hath infallibility and indefectibilitie. 1644Digby Man's Soul vi. (1645) 68 These Propositions..have in themselves an indefectibility insuperable. 1726J. Trapp Popery i. 50 There is no Promise of Indefectibility made by our Saviour to any particular church. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 383 That [controversy] which raged between Calvinists and Arminians on the ‘indefectibility of grace’. |