Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inexpugnable manner; impregnably: as, “inexpugnably lodged,”

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  • adverb So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner.

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  • adverb In an inexpugnable manner.

Etymologies

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inexpugnable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Andalusia not being Gothic had never been Aryan, and it was one of her kings who carried his orthodoxy to Castile and established it inexpugnably at Toledo after he succeeded his heretical father there.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Here his allegiance was all to the old-time classic school, to the ideal that still survives, and inexpugnably, in the rustic breast and even in the national senate; the Roman Forum was never completely absent from his eye, and Daniel Webster remained the undimmed pattern of all that man -- man mounted on his legs -- should be.

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • The lady, whose salvation is on these grounds inexpugnably accomplished, was married to Count Sanbonifazio of Padua, in her twenty-fourth year; and

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

  • Andalusia not being Gothic had never been Aryan, and it was one of her kings who carried his orthodoxy to Castile and established it inexpugnably at Toledo after he succeeded his heretical father there.

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • Perhaps you have blood in your veins, perhaps celestial ichor, or perhaps you circulate nothing more gross than respirable air; but of one thing I am inexpugnably assured: -- that you are no human being.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • They are more real to us, that is to say, they more inexpugnably assert and maintain themselves, than material things do: and it is only hopeless vulgarity and incompetence of thinking which can ever confuse or merge them with material things.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • -- Here Sir Thomas is the opinion which I have attempted to maintain concerning the progress and tendency of society, placed in a proper position, and inexpugnably entrenched here according to the rules of art, by the ablest of all moral engineers.

    Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808

  • The motion picture and consumer industries are marching inexpugnably toward higher resolution formats and faster frame rates.

    xchange magazine Articles 2009

  • The motion picture and consumer industries are marching inexpugnably toward higher resolution formats and faster frame rates.

    xchange magazine Articles 2009

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