单词 | inconvincible |
释义 | inconvincibleadj.n. a. Incapable of being convinced; not open to conviction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] unlevefulOE unleveOE misbelievedc1225 untristc1374 unlevablea1382 incredulec1550 uncredible1553 incredible1557 incredulous1578 infidel1607 unbelieving1616 inconvincible1674 unconvinced1675 unconvinciblea1747 misbelievinga1845 unconvinceable1875 1674 Govt. Tongue xi. §9. 195 None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xix. 122 There is nothing so dogmatical and inconvincible as one of these fine things, when it sets up for Free-thinking. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. i. 218 The Commons are inconvincible, the Noblesse and Clergy irrefragably convincing. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. v. 14 I am not inconvincible by any kind of evidence. b. as n. An inconvincible person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > one who disbelieves denierc1475 deneger1583 incredule1599 infidel1606 disbeliever1648 exploder1659 inconvincible1845 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. i. 8 You are one of the ‘inconvinceables’. Derivatives inconvinciˈbility n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > state of incredulity1430 inconvictedness1664 inconviction1664 inconvincibility1882 incredibility1882 credibility gap1962 1882 W. M. Williams Sci. in Short Chapters 55 With all the conservative inconvincibility of a born and bred Englishman. inconˈvincibly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adverb] inconvincedly1642 inconvincibly1646 incredulously1800 unconvincedly1850 misbelievingly1882 disbelievingly1893 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 27 Yet is it not much lesse injurious unto knowledge obstinately and inconvincibly [1658 inconvincedly] to side with any one. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.n.1646 |
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