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Definition of Impassableness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassableness

Literary usage of Impassableness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of the Comparative Physiology and Morphology of Animals by Joseph LeConte (1899)
"... they do—then the amount of difference between faunas of different places ought to be in strict proportion to the impassableness of the barriers between. ..."

2. Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"There is another element, not yet mentioned, which is just as important as impassableness, but which until recently has been left entirely out of account. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"... and then to Jedburgh, and, despising the severity of the weather, the impassableness of the roads, and the ambuscades of robbers, fearlessly journeyed ..."

4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... impassableness of ways, calamities, casualties, confinement, or transference by force, by fraud, or the like. 153 V. Accidents: for example, death, 154. ..."

5. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"We have said that the differences between faunas or floras are in proportion to the impassableness of the barriers ; but there is another important ..."

6. History of the Hopedale Community: From Its Inception to Its Virtual by Adin Ballou, William Sweetzer Heywood (1897)
"... by reason of the severity of the weather, the impassableness of the country across which their journey ran, and their ignorance of the proper or best ..."

7. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"... chief confidence was in the impassableness of it: for, having taken away or destroyed all the shipping and boats that were to be found on it, ..."

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