Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unmalleable; incapable of being extended by hammering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not maleable.

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  • adjective archaic Not malleable.

Etymologies

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im- +‎ malleable

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Examples

  • Ren's "civil world" is a world with a identities that are static and immalleable on player whim.

    The Four Worlds Theory 2005

  • One's subjective gender is just as real and immalleable as one's physical gender but unfortunately not recognized in our culture.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Zoe Brain 2005

  • One's subjective gender is just as real and immalleable as one's physical gender but unfortunately not recognized in our culture.

    The Brain, Genes, Gender and Sex Zoe Brain 2005

  • But that immalleable mind lacked the strong fibre of logic and foresight -- which is all that moral force amounts to -- that lifts a man triumphant above his worst temptations; and he paid the bitter and hideous penalty in a poverty, loneliness, and living death that would have moved the theologians of his blood to the uneasy suspicion that punishment is of this earth, a logical sequence of foolish and short-sighted acts.

    The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

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