Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inimitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or status of being
inimitable .
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Examples
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By the end of the tenth century the influence of the Mu'tazili school had waned, for complicated political reasons, and the official doctrine had become that of i'jaz, or the "inimitability" of the Koran.
What Is the Koran? 1999
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By the end of the tenth century the influence of the Mu'tazili school had waned, for complicated political reasons, and the official doctrine had become that of i'jaz, or the "inimitability" of the Koran.
What Is the Koran? 1999
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Others hide behind a smokescreen of unreadable inimitability -- Marilynne Robinson, for example -- to maintain a necessary barrier between the masses and the overlords.
The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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Yet whether we practice in one of these traditions or find our unique path through the labyrinth of life, we each walk the path differently, in a way that only the inimitability of each of our beings can do -- our "unique self."
Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: Is Guru a Four-Letter Word?: The Need for Discernment on the Spiritual Path 2010
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Others hide behind a smokescreen of unreadable inimitability--Marilynne Robinson, for example--to maintain a necessary barrier between the masses and the overlords.
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) Anis Shivani 2010
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Yet whether we practice in one of these traditions or find our unique path through the labyrinth of life, we each walk the path differently, in a way that only the inimitability of each of our beings can do -- our "unique self."
Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: Is Guru a Four-Letter Word?: The Need for Discernment on the Spiritual Path 2010
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Others hide behind a smokescreen of unreadable inimitability -- Marilynne Robinson, for example -- to maintain a necessary barrier between the masses and the overlords.
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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Yet whether we practice in one of these traditions or find our unique path through the labyrinth of life, we each walk the path differently, in a way that only the inimitability of each of our beings can do -- our "unique self."
Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: Is Guru a Four-Letter Word?: The Need for Discernment on the Spiritual Path 2010
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The idea is not that any one of these things individually makes for the unique inimitability of the work, but that it is the whole.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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The idea is not that any one of these things individually makes for the unique inimitability of the work, but that it is the whole.
I'jaz al-Qur'an 2005
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