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单词 indestructibility
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indestructibilityn.

Etymology: < indestructible adj.: see -ity suffix. Compare French indestructibilité (1737 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: indestructiˈbility.
The quality of being indestructible; incapability of being destroyed.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > capability of being destroyed > indestructibility
unperishableness1648
unextinguishablenessa1660
indestructibility1671
indestructibleness1844
1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 78 There is therefore in Mercury itself..the nearest cause or reason of indestructibility.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm x. 261 Proof of the indestructibility and victorious power of Christianity.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 16 To the magnificent doctrine of the indestructibility of matter, we are now adding..one of the indestructibility of force.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) 236 The philosophical thesis of the immateriality or indestructibility of the human soul.
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