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The property being difficult or impossible to defeat
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invincibility
Word definitions for invincibility in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invincibility \In*vin`ci*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. invincibilit['e].] The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from invincible + -ity .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property being difficult or impossible to defeat [syn: indomitability ]
Usage examples of invincibility.
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality -- the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
Gazing up into its smoky flesh, past the madly agitated swarms of aerials that celebrated its passage, past the traceries of lightning, I saw a darker structure in its depths shaped like a great Aleph, the seat of its divinity, and persuading me of its godhood more than anything I saw was the aura of power and invincibility it projected.
So cocksure was Manos of the invincibility of his army, that he had vetoed a mercenary leader's suggestion that outriders be posted at van, flanks and rear.
Within two brights of promising us invincibility, they have succeeded in rendering us impotent beyond Kleippur’s wildest dreams.
Kell smiled, cheered by the gleaming surfaces, the unscratched paint and canopies, the sentinel-like quality of the sleeping R2 and R5 units tucked in behind the cockpits, the overall appearance of invincibility.