immarcescible
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French inmarcessible (1482), later immarcescible (“that does not shrivel" or "that does not perish”), from Latin immarcescibilis (“unfading”).
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Adjective[edit]
immarcescible (comparative more immarcescible, superlative most immarcescible)
- (rare) Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
- 1989, Kathleen Raine, “Hieros Gamos”, in Selected Poems, page 103:
- I did not think to see them once again, / For what could bring into an old woman's dream / Canova's immarcescible marble lovers?
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin immarcescibilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
immarcescible (plural immarcescibles)
- (literary) immarcescible (permanent, enduring, that does not perish)
- Synonyms: impérissable, inflétrissable
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Further reading[edit]
- “immarcescible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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