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  • adjective Not broachable.

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un- +‎ broachable

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Examples

  • It was something eternal, unbroachable: I was free, in this heavy, ice-cold air, this upper world, alone.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • It was something eternal, unbroachable: I was free, in this heavy, ice-cold air, this upper world, alone.

    Twilight in Italy 1907

  • So the netherland emerges as the dark reverse of the dream, not the whole large hell of the netherworld -- the novel's natural good taste and Dutch containment are alert against any hint of the grandiose -- but a personal province of it, which is one man's entry into something he never describes as depression, but rather as a "descent into disorder," a fatalistic submission to a shrunken life, a state of unbroachable loneliness and "freezing dismay."

    Powell's Books: Overview 2008

  • "coup" on a small scale, Bonaparte throws the whole bourgeois social system into disorder; he broaches everything that seemed unbroachable by the revolution of 1848; he makes one set people patient under the revolution and another anxious for it; he produces anarchy itself in the name of order by rubbing off from the whole machinery of Government the veneer of sanctity, by profaning it, by rendering it at once nauseating and laughable.

    Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

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