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unrepulsable

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ repulsable.

Adjective

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unrepulsable (comparative more unrepulsable, superlative most unrepulsable)

  1. 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.