impassibility
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It’s no longer in use; grass and dirt cover much of its surface, and the road at its far end is overgrown to the point of impassibility.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2018
But she immediately recovered her impassibility of features—that wonderful calmness and innocent expression which afterwards was so severely put to the proof without 155 being shaken—and she asked, with apparent unconcern:
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith
As a result monophysite theology oscillated between denial of the impassibility of God and denial of his three-fold personality.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
I know I haven't seen him around lately, crushing pillows and making us all look vulgar in contrast to his calm and almost insulting impassibility.
From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green
This is a naïve and quite significant confession of the difficulty he experienced in maintaining his puritanical restraint and impassibility at that time.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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