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Definition of Inexterminable
1. Adjective. Incapable of extermination or extirpation. "Some weeds seem inextirpable"
Definition of Inexterminable
1. a. Incapable of extermination.
Definition of Inexterminable
1. Adjective. Impossible to exterminate. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexterminable
Literary usage of Inexterminable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oracle of Reason; Or, Philosophy Vindicated (1842)
"thing being inexterminable or indestructible, is to talk more like wild men, than
reasonable beings. If, however, these Deists ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... against which the monarchy, aided by the Tiers Etat, had made war for centuries,
and which had been for the nation an almost inexterminable curse. ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"from the provincial dialects risen into inexterminable habit before the invention
of printing. The Greek never became the language of the Alexandrine, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"When we read such terms as 'brutal ignorance,' and ' almost inexterminable
stupidity of the narrow minded boor', applied to Englishmen, we can scarcely ..."
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