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Invulnerability   /ɪnvˌəlnərəbˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Invulnerability

noun
1.
Having the strength to withstand attack.  Synonym: impregnability.
2.
The property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally).





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"Invulnerability" Quotes from Famous Books



... care, and to abstain religiously from every offensive expression, he mounts into regions of scurrility and abuse inaccessible to all other men, and he riots in invective and insult with a scornful and ostentatious exhibition of his invulnerability, which renders him an object of execration to all those who cherish the principles ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III • Charles C. F. Greville
... standing there and thinking upon the man's hellish design, his unscrupulousness, his singular success, I felt the old fear of Leroux in my heart, and with it something of the same superstition of his invulnerability. But my resolution surpassed my fear, and I knew it would not fail me. How often had I resolved—and forgotten. Not again ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert
... urged, "as a matter of the first necessity. Such a vessel at this time could traverse the entire coast of the United States, prevent all blockade, and encounter with a fine prospect of success their entire navy. Inequality of numbers may be overcome by invulnerability, and thus not only does economy but naval success dictate the wisdom and expediency of fighting with iron against wood, without regard to ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... is just possible that some consciousness of invulnerability on his own part, or of great power to injure his antagonist, might be the cause why he had held back so long from fighting the duel, and placed so many obstacles in the way of the usual necessary arrangements ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest


Words linked to "Invulnerability" :   invulnerable, strength, immunity, safety, vulnerability


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