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Definition of Insuperable
1. Adjective. Impossible to surmount.
2. Adjective. Incapable of being surmounted or excelled. "Insuperable heroes"
Definition of Insuperable
1. a. Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
Definition of Insuperable
1. Adjective. Impossible to achieve or overcome or be negotiated. ¹
2. Adjective. Overwhelming or insurmountable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insuperable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insuperable
Literary usage of Insuperable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Difficulties In Discovering the Ultimate Issue Great but not Insuperable.
The difficulties in the way of this discovery, though great, are not insuperable. ..."
2. The American Rural School, Its Characteristics, Its Future and Its Problems by Harold Waldstein Foght (1910)
"Objections to this Agricultural Trend not Insuperable. ... Such objections, while
in part well taken, are not insuperable; and, if all the facts were told, ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The pecuniary difficulties not insuperable, 359 — Sec. 5. The situation in the
United States as to accidents long chaotic; the need of reform. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As these difficulties arise from the nature of the subject, they oppress, with
the same insuperable weight, the philosophic and the theological disputant ..."
5. The Bookman (1915)
"is no other adjective so fitting to describe a feeling that afforded you a sense
of strong shelter and insuperable peace. There were times, too, ..."
6. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"... have been among the great and insuperable difficulties, which I have met with,
and have contributed not a little to my embarrassments this campaign. ..."
7. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... United States have sustained by the enemy will be considered by thc several
States as an insuperable bar to their making restitution or indemnification ..."
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