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INDOMITABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indomitability mean?
• INDOMITABILITY (noun)
The noun INDOMITABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property being difficult or impossible to defeat
Familiarity information: INDOMITABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property being difficult or impossible to defeat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
indomitability; invincibility
Hypernyms ("indomitability" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Derivation:
indomitable (impossible to subdue)
Context examples
His was the student's mind, and behind his ability to learn was the indomitability of his nature and his love for Ruth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And in this was portrayed the victory of the spirit over the flesh, the indomitability and moral grandeur of the soul that knows no restriction and rises above time and space and matter with a surety and invincibleness born of nothing else than eternity and immortality.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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