Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That cannot be mastered or subdued.

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

  • adjective obsolete Incapable of being mastered or subdued.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not masterable; that cannot be mastered.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ masterable

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Examples

  • Ereignis is Dasein's irruption into being in its sheer unmasterable eventfulness, the incalculable happening of Dasein's disclosedness.

    Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008

  • Ereignis is Dasein's irruption into being in its sheer unmasterable eventfulness, the incalculable happening of Dasein's disclosedness.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • But how was it within the vail of the heart and teeming mind, where the currents and counter-currents of that subtle but powerful passion flow and clash unseen, often gaining their full height and unmasterable strength before any event shall occur to betray their existence to the public.

    Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831

  • It is permanently unmasterable, and anyone who says otherwise is a crashing bore, a jaded pinhead.

    One Cosmos 2009

  • Iowa Writers 'Workshop) –students who are similarly embarked (and most of them realize it) on what is probably an un-understandable and certainly an unmasterable endeavor.

    A conversation with Ethan Canin 2010

  • Sharp focus gives way to the unbounded promise of an immensely open book, or the unmasterable field of vision that, for Lacan, "grasps me, solicits me at every moment, and makes of the landscape something other than a landscape, something other than what I have called a picture" (Four Fundamental

    The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008

  • But then, suddenly, she was forced to recognize that reality was "vast and chaotic and unmasterable.

    Skirmishes in the Family Garden Schine, Cathleen 2009

  • But then, suddenly, she was forced to recognize that reality was "vast and chaotic and unmasterable.

    The New York Review of Books 2009

  • But then, suddenly, she was forced to recognize that reality was "vast and chaotic and unmasterable.

    The New York Review of Books 2009

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