inconquerability

English

Noun

inconquerability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being inconquerable.

   Synonym: unconquerability

   • 1930, Nicholas Roerich, “Light in the Desert”, in Shambhala, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, page 248:

     Singing and dancing in the honor of Geser Khan, Horpa offers to procure one of these inconquerable swords. Sands and stones are around, but still the idea of inconquerability is living.

   • 1945, Karl Brandt, “The Basic Controversial Issues in a World Agricultural Policy for an Era of Peace”, in The Reconstruction of World Agriculture, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, Inc., page 247:

     Russia’s rising might will by necessity rely on the soundness of [Halford] Mackinder’s theory concerning the inconquerability of the Continental heartland.

   • 2009, Benjamin Obler, Javascotia, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 352:

     Palate-wise, it was nothing new. It was a synthetic kind of coffee flavor, like spraypaint and tree bark. A few sugarcubes helped the cause, for both my tongue and my brain, the latter struggling to overcome irritation and get to that place of bright clarity, to attain that souped-up inconquerability that only coffee brings.