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Definition of Impassably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassably
| impartialities impartiality impartially impartialness impartibility impartible impartibly imparting impartment impartments | imparts |
Literary usage of Impassably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. India, and India Missions: Including Sketches of the Gigantic System of by Alexander Duff (1840)
"... fixed, and systematic form, society was divided and subdivided into numberless
classes or castes; to be confined impassably to one defined profession, ..."
2. A popular and complete English dictionary by John Boag (1848)
"The act of imparting; the communication of knowledge; disclosure. impassably,
îm-pAs'.sà-bl, a. That cannot be passed; not admitting a passage. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Above 2000 feet, however, the forest is quite open, but travel is impeded much
more seriously by the impassably sharp hogbacks and steep canyon -walls. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"... and herein he has done much to assist in breaking down the barriers at one
time regarded as impassably isolating the chemistry of carbon compounds. ..."
5. The history of England from the Revolution to the death of George the second by David Hume (1848)
"Colonel Clavering landed with about eighty men; but found himself so entangled
with mangrove-trees, and the mud so impassably deep, that he was obliged to ..."
6. The History of England by Tobias George Smollett, David Hume (1827)
"Colonel Clavering landed with about eighty men; but found himself so entangled
with mangrove trees, and the mud so impassably deep, that he was obliged to ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"... anchored fast to the solid ice, with the way to the westward impassably blocked
up before them. Now began the real and earnest perils of the Expedition. ..."
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