indestructibility
English
Noun
indestructibility (uncountable)
- The condition of being indestructible.
- 1812, W. A. Spicer, Our Day in the Light of Prophecy[1], The Stanborough Press, Limited, page 291:
- The doctrine of the immortality, the indestructibility, of the soul is responsible for the traditional view that the wicked are kept alive in unending misery through all eternity.
- 1828, Gerrit Smith, John Mason Good, Peter Smith, The Book of Nature[2], J. & J. Harper, page 22:
- As from the years of four to eight there is great danger that overemphasis of the activities of the Yet, in its liquid and gaseous state, matter often exhibits still more extraordinary instances of indestructibility or resistance to decomposition ; and it should be especially remarked, that its indestructibility or indecomposable power appears to hold a direct proportion to its subtilty, its levity, its activity, its refined ethereal or spiritualized modification of being.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 295:
- For it is the job of men, she said, to stop women from realizing their own indestructibility, and for as long as possible.
Translations
The condition of destructible
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