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Word Meanings - IMPREGNABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. South. -- Im*preg"na*ble*ness,

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Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. South. -- Im*preg"na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*preg"na*bly, adv. (more info) pregnable, fr. prendre to take, L. prehendere. See Comprehend, Get to

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  • INDISPUTABLE
    Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
  • SECURIFORM
    Having the form of an ax hatchet.
  • STRICT
    Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • PROTECT
    To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
  • PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
    A woman who protects.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • STRICTNESS
    Quality or state of being strict.
  • SECURER
    One who, or that which, secures.
  • PROTECTORIAL
    See PROTECTORAL
  • BETRAYAL
    The act or the result of betraying.
  • IRRESISTIBLENESS
    Quality of being irrestible.
  • SECURENESS
    The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • INSUPERABLE
    Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor. Syn.
  • UNQUESTIONABLE
    1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • PROTECTORLESS
    Having no protector; unprotected.
  • SECURITY
    1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
  • STRICTURED
    Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
  • UNIMPEACHABLE
    Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness,
  • ASTRICT
    To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
  • BOA CONSTRICTOR
    A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • RESTRICT
    Restricted.
  • REDISTRICT
    To divide into new districts.
  • CONSTRICTION
    1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • VASOCONSTRICTOR
    Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.

 

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