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Definition of Impassibly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassibly
| imparting impartment impartments imparts impastation impastations |
Literary usage of Impassibly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"Colonel Clavering landed with about eighty men; but found himself so entangled
with mangrove trees, and the mud so impassibly deep, that he was obliged to ..."
2. The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the by David Hume (1810)
"Colonel Clavering landed with about eighty men; but found himself so entangled
with mangrove trees, and the mud so impassibly deep, that he was obliged to ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1881)
"Leo XIII. impassibly replied to all these advisers and advocates by coldly
saying, ' There is a congregation whose busi- ' ness it is to see into and judge ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... for dimly amid the buffeting of those murderous stones, his mother watching
impassibly, sunk at once into the condition she had so long anticipated. ..."
5. Great Masters by John La Farge (1903)
"That other portrait of Pope Julius kneeling impassibly at the altar where the
miracle occurs, not as having been really there, but as representing ..."
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