insusceptible
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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 atmosphere of such a town would be like that of the country, insusceptible of the miasmata which produce yellow fever.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
They have done it, in many instances, with a boldness they were thought insusceptible of.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
The same advantage in a greater degree is obtained by vaccination, even in the exceptional instances in which it fails to render the person altogether insusceptible to the disease.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles
Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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