vincibility

Another psychological dynamic contributing to sudden vincibility is that successful business leaders usually have a strong interest in protecting their current products, customers, and investments -- and therefore may unconsciously overlook or avoid trends or technologies that might threaten that base.

Ron Ashkenas: When the Invincible Become "Vincible" Ron Ashkenas 2011

Questions about his vincibility were not impertinent but necessary.

Federer proves he is still a force 2008

As the vincibility of the American and Israeli military becomes common knowledge, Israel's security is diminished and world opinion turns against her, especially after the failed efforts to remove the Hezbollah threat.

The Law of Opposites - by Rep. Ron Paul (R - Tx.) Michael Caddell 2006

Among the eminent lawyers of the District I believe I had many friends, and there were those of them to whom I could always go with confidence in an emergency for sound advice and direction, and this fact, after all the hostility felt in consequence of my appointment, and revived by my speech at Baltimore, is another proof of the vincibility of all feelings arising out of popular prejudices.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston 1892

Poor Corrie and his sable friend were easily carried, coiled up like sacks, each on the shoulders of a stalwart savage; but Bumpus, who had required eight men to bind him, still remained unconvinced of his vincibility.

Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific 1859

Poor Corrie and his sable friend were easily carried, coiled up like sacks, each on the shoulders of a stalwart savage; but Bumpus, who had required eight men to bind him, still remained unconvinced of his vincibility.

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859

I had more confidence than others in the vincibility of this disease, and in the success of those measures which we had used for our defence against it.

Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790

Republicans didn't lose the seat to a Democrat, obviously, but the unlikely election of a write-in candidate over a Palin pick in her own home state is illustrative of Palin's vincibility.

chron.com Chronicle 2010

But love that is founded on a merit that every-body acknowledges 1 don’t know what to say to the vincibility of ntc/i a love.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006