Meaning of Impenetrability | Babel Free

Definitions

The characteristic of being impenetrable; invulnerability.

countable, uncountable

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“1651, uncredited translator, Naturall Philosophie Reformed by Divine Light⟳, or, A Synopsis of Physicks by J. A. Comenius, London: Thomas Pierrepont, Chapter 4, “Of the tangible quality,” Humidity (or humour) is the liquidnesse of the parts of the body, and aptnesse to be penetrated by one another; siccity on the contrary is a consistency, and an impenetrability of the parts of the body.”

“What does Don Carlos Gould think⟳ of that? But, of course, with his English impenetrability, nobody can tell⟳ what he thinks.”

“1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., Part I, Chapter 7, in Parade's End⟳, New York: Knopf, 1950, p. 137, He watched intently the place⟳ where she must appear⟳; it would give⟳ him pointers about the impenetrability of mist to the eye.”

“If everybody came to agree⟳ that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of a job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability.”

“As he passed gleaming wooden door after gleaming wooden door, each bearing a small plaque with the owner’s name⟳ and occupation upon it, the might of the Ministry, its complexity, its impenetrability, seemed to force⟳ itself upon him so that the plan⟳ he had been carefully concocting with Ron and Hermione over the past four weeks seemed laughably childish.”

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