insusceptible

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Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad’s ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained; it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front he became a railroad-scalper.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I am sure that he would be very insusceptible to proper domestic influences.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

It remains as a pure deduction from the philosophical conception of Monism, incapable of proof, insusceptible of refutation.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various

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