Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being buried; unfit to be buried.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not ready or not proper to be buried.
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- adjective Not ready or not proper to be
buried .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yea, something invulnerable, unburiable is with me, something that would rend rocks asunder: it is called MY WILL.
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They stood for the thought of the world outside -- the idea fatherless, unsponsored, the aspiration of the great masses -- a breath of fresh air in the sick-room of a chronic invalid forever dying, forever unburiable.
The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Yea, something invulnerable, unburiable is with me, something that would rend rocks asunder: it is called my Will.
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Yea, something invulnerable, unburiable is with me, something that would rend rocks asunder: it is called MY WILL.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Rome, where you see I now am, seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness; and from the bottom of my envious ignorance I cannot help thinking that the pleasure nearest happiness (what a gulf there is between!) must be the enjoyment of a great and fine scholar – like Arnold, for instance – in Rome, present and past, – this Rome of which Poussin in his enthusiasm caught up a handful of the soil, exclaiming, "Ecco la Roma antica!" and that other Rome beneath it, with its unburied and unburiable memories.
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