insusceptible

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These disputes are the most insusceptible of determination, because they have no foundation in reason.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

What has actually happened in the year which has since elapsed has shown that those hopes were not justified, those assurances insusceptible of being fulfilled.

From President Wilson's Addresses by Harper, George McLean

Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless.

From A Little Book for Christmas by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason.

From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter