unassailability

English

Etymology

un- +‎ assail +‎ -ability

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnəˌseɪləˈbɪlɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

unassailability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unassailable.
   • 1987, S. Parvez Manzoor, “Method against Truth Orientalism and Qur'ānic Studies”, in Andrew Rippin, editor, The Qur’an‎^[1], Routledge, published 2016:

     All the aberrant streaks of his arrogant personality – its reckless rationalism, its world-domineering phantasy and its sectarian fanaticism – joined in an unholy conspiracy to dislodge the Muslim Scripture from its firmly entrenched position as the epitome of historic authenticity and moral unassailability.

   • 1998, Marshall W. Gregory, “Ethical Criticism: What It Is and Why It Matters”, in Style, volume 32, number 2, Penn State UP, →JSTOR, page 208:

     Likewise, Jeffrey Nealson, in a recent issue of College English, reinforces the unassailability of the postmodern view of “self” as not the stable center of knowledge about itself or the world, but as an unstable product created at the site where language, culture, history, and politics intersect.

   • 1999, James Trilling, “My Father and the Weak-Eyed Devils”, in The American Scholar, volume 68, number 2, The Phi Beta Kappa Society, →JSTOR, page 34:

     What he meant is the kind of official unassailability we associate with royalty, a sense of being exempt from interruption and criticism rather than impervious to them. Intrusions on dignity, he said, struck him with all the force of lèse-majesté.