infrangible
/ɪnˈfran(d)ʒɪb(ə)l
/adjective formal
Unbreakable; inviolable: there is no infrangible genetic prescription of human behaviour...
- But, not for the first time, I'd underestimated the children's resilience and adaptability; and their infrangible curiosity.
- Thus he stressed that his will to defend every inch of Soviet-held territory to the last drop of blood of the last Red Army infantryman was infrangible.
- It was cumulative and continuous, suggesting an open-ended adventure in social learning where no type was infrangible.
Derivatives
infrangibility
/ noun ...- It is therefore necessary to use glass shields which resist the high temperatures reached, but which do not have characteristics of infrangibility and are consequently particularly subject to damage.
- The latest in technology and materials combine to allow a reduction in thickness which increases not only luminous efficiency, but also elasticity, thus ensuring improved sturdiness and infrangibility.
infrangibly
- If we open up for this infrangibly flowing, divine light energy nothing but good will come to us.
- The work looked muffled, ineloquent and infrangibly sincere.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French, or from medieval Latin infrangibilis, from in- 'not' + frangibilis (see frangible).