unrepulsable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + repulsable.
Adjective
[edit]unrepulsable (comparative more unrepulsable, superlative most unrepulsable)
- That cannot be repulsed.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages Fanny [… was trying, by every thing in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he unrepulsable was persisting in both.]:
- 1863, Mary Cowden Clarke, The iron cousin; or, Mutual influence, page 149:
- Somehow, these abominable, unrepulsable women, always compassed their end; and he found himself helplessly and inevitably possessed of a bunch of flowers.