Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indomitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Indomitable.
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Examples
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Accablé par sa vigueur indomptable, Kouvéra défait lui
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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[FN#118] Of this masterful personage and his energie indomptable
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Everyone except the indomptable Hillary has imploded running against him.
Firedoglake 2008
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_une ardour_ [un foyer d'activite] indomptable qui ne leur permet pas de rester inactives, _qui les force a se remuer afin d'exercer les facultes puissantes, qui meme en dormant sont pretes, comme Sampson, a briser les noeuds qui les retiennent_?
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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N’est - ce pas, parce qu’il y a dans certaines natures, UNE ARDOUR [un foyer d’activite] indomptable qui ne leur permet pas de rester inactives, QUI LES FORCE E SE REMUER AFIN D’EXERCER LES
chained_bear commented on the word indomptable
"It also lit up the deck of the Formidable, Captain Lalonde, a beautifully built French eighty-gun ship of the line wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois at the mizen ... and with her in line ahead sailed the rest of the squadron, the Indomptable, eighty, Captain Moncousu, the Desaix, seventy-four, Captain Christy-Pallière (a splendid sailer), and the Muiron, a thirty-eight gun frigate...."
--Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, 367
March 29, 2008