Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be dissolved or loosened; indissoluble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated; incapable of separation; perpetually firm and binding; indissoluble.
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- adjective Not
dissolvable ; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are not only diseases incurable in physick, but cases indissolvable in law, vices incorrigible in divinity.
Religio Medici 2007
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I shall afterward show how the infallible and indissolvable connection of these things is established by the law of
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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That the contexture between these two links of this chain, predestination to a conformity with Christ and calling, is simply and absolutely indissolvable, so that whoever is so predestinated never fails of being called; 2.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The Obligation is as indissolvable as the Relation.
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And to speak more generally, those three Noble Professions which all civil Commonwealths do honour, are raised upon the fall of Adam, and are not any way exempt from their infirmities; there are not only diseases incurable in Physick, but cases indissolvable in Laws, Vices incorrigible in Divinity.
The Second Part 1909
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Even while Christ's body was divided from his soul, yet it ceased not to maintain an intimate, indissolvable relation to his divinity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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The Obligation is as indissolvable as the Relation.
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There are not only diseases incurable in physick, but cases indissolvable in law, vices incorrigible in divinity.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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Christ's human nature were united to his divine by way of adequate commensuration one to the other, it would then follow, that if one was where the other is not, the union so far would cease; but the union between these two natures is only by intimate, indissolvable relation one to the other; so that wheresoever the divine nature of Christ is present, though his human is not there present too, yet it still holds the same relation to it, as to a thing joined with it in one and the same subsistence.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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It is a dream, a moment, a vapour, a flood, a flower, and whatsoever can be more fading or perishing; and therefore it is not in itself very considerable, yet in another respect it is of all things the most precious, and worthy of the deepest attention and most serious consideration; and that is, because it is linked unto eternity; and there is an indissolvable knot between them, that no power or art can break or loose.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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