insusceptible
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His soul, indurated by crime, was as insusceptible to the soothing influence of such aspects, as the cold rocky cavern where he had harbored, was impenetrable to the noonday blaze.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
Against this claim, Grotius attempted to shew that the sea was, from its nature, insusceptible of exclusive right; and that, if it were susceptible of it, England did not prove her title to it.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles
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
Her tone set aside the subject as insusceptible of sufficient or satisfactory answer.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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