Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being repulsed.

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  • adjective That cannot be repulsed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ repulsable

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Examples

  • - AusSndt184 - influence Sidney had somehow acquired over her before she was aware of it Charlotte's next reaction was to try to counteract it by concentrating on his very obvious defects of character and reciting them over to herself: he was flippant, worldly, imprudent, impetuous, domineering, officious, unrepulsable, irresponsible and probably unreliable.

    Sanditon 1817

  • Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.

    Mansfield Park 1814

  • Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying, by every thing in the power of her modest gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and enquiries; and he unrepulsable was persisting in both.

    Mansfield Park 1814

  • Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.

    Mansfield Park Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1814

  • Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.

    Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1796

  • Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund’s arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.

    Mansfield Park 2004

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