inexpugnable

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But there is no mistaking the real heartbreak and waste that are Hage’s material, or his outrage at the most costly, terrible and seemingly inexpugnable qualities of humanity.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019

A principle for which so much is claimed demands clear definition and inexpugnable foundation in the "solid ground of Nature."

From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by Saleeby, C. W. (Caleb Williams)

It would indeed be strange and lamentable if the divorce between feeling and conviction—to adopt a popular classification—was not simply incidental to change, but was also an inexpugnable part of fundamental aspects of human life.

From Determinism or Free-Will? by Cohen, Chapman

We have here, in short, the sphere of what Matthew Arnold likes to call Aberglaube, legitimate, inexpugnable, yet doomed to eternal variations and disputes.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

For some months Durtal had been trying to reassemble the fragments of a shattered literary theory which had once seemed inexpugnable, and Des Hermies's opinions troubled him, in spite of their exaggerated vehemence.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene