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- noun The state or quality of being
impassable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unlike a publicly-built road that once constructed will decay into impassability, a private road owner retains the incentive to preserve her investment.
Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010
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Unlike a publicly-built road that once constructed will decay into impassability, a private road owner retains the incentive to preserve her investment.
Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010
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As a rule of thumb I'll note that those who profess the impassability of ethical terrain have just in fact traversed it.
Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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As a rule of thumb I'll note that those who profess the impassability of ethical terrain have just in fact traversed it.
Economists like to separate the "positive" and "normative" aspects Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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On the descent, when things began to look very bad, and the mountain-sides had become cascades bringing trees, logs, and rocks down with them, we were fortunate enough to meet with two pack-horses whose leaders were ignorant of the impassability of the road to Odate, and they and my coolies exchanged loads.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Travellers keep coming in with stories of the impassability of the roads and the carrying away of bridges.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Huge boulders margined the sides of it, and half-way up an encircling wall added to the impassability of the position.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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For many years the settlement in N.S.W. was confined to the coastal plains, owing to the impassability of the Blue Mountains.
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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The qualities of a glorified body are four, viz.: brilliancy, agility, subtility, and impassability.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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He Himself was unhurt by this, for He is impassable and incorruptible; but by His own impassability He kept and healed the suffering men on whose account He thus endured.
On the Incarnation c.296-c.373 1946
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