inconcussible

English

Etymology

From in- (“not”) + Latin concussibilis (“that can be shaken”). See concussion.

Adjective

inconcussible (comparative more inconcussible, superlative most inconcussible)

1. Unshakable;
   1. Firm; solid.
      • 1825, Edward Reynolds (Bishop of Norwich.), ‎ C. Bradley, Seven Sermons on the Fourteenth Chapter of Hosea, page 320:

        Who were they that did put far away the evil day, and, in despite of the prophet's threatenings, did flatter themselves in the conceit of their firm and inconcussible estate; but they who were at ease in Zion, who trusted upon mountains of Samaria, who lay upon beds of ivory, and stretched themselves upon their couches?

      • 1864, The Intellectual repository for the New Church, page 320:

        Well, then, the Protestant establishments and the Protestant Bible are to fall together, and the Holy See alone to remain inconcussible.

      • 1907, T.L.O. Davies, “An Old Southampton Newspaper”, in Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, volume 6, page 17:

        One writer puts forth "Meditations on a Table," and from observing a crack in that article of furniture, draws the obvious moral that "true fame must be built on the inconcussible rock of virtue."

      • 2011, Nicholas P. Snoek, Urantia the Earth-The Origin of It All, page 60:

        Truth is inconcussible — forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable — radiantly alive.

      an inconcussible foundation

   2. Unwavering; steadfast.
      • 2013, John Laird, Mind and Deity, page 2013:

        What he called the "pure ether" and "transparent" texture of the triumphant Notion were assertions of the necessary reality, the inconcussible certainty of fact that had become pellucid.

      • 2014, David van Dusen, The Space of Time, page xi:

        And finally I thank my kin, who have seen past fortune and misfortune with the inconcussible evenness of love.

      • 2019, David Farrell Krell, The Cudgel and the Caress: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness, page 166:

        One grants properties [Eigenschaften] in the inconcussible certitude of an accord

      an inconcussible conviction

   3. Unassailable; incontrovertible.
      • 1865, The Royal Supremacy and the Court of Final Appeal., page 30:

        The judgment has gone forth as valid and inconcussible, in spite of assessors impugning it, who belong to the highest order of religious teachers recognized by the State.

      • 1910, P. M. Northcote, The Idea of Development, page 16:

        The weak point in the theory of genetic evolution is not that it transgresses any inconcussible principle of sound philosophy, but that it cannot be satisfactorily squared with the facts of nature.

      • 1999, Felicity Allen, Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart, page 248:

        In the face of "words so plainly put together," the fact that slavery was neither sin nor abomination was "inconcussible'."

      an inconcussible fact

References

• “inconcussible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.