Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being insuperable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
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- noun The quality or state of being
insuperable ;insuperableness .
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Examples
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It's the insuperability of Roosevelt's hundred days that has confirmed it as the benchmark to which later presidents aspired.
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But since the insuperability has none of the characteristics of necessity, we must, on the contrary, conclude: that the reproduction always occurs, when we can replace ourselves in the conditions in which the stimulus (physical beauty) was produced.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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Another moment, and the obstacle had become very real; it grew to vastness, to insuperability He stood, as it were, looking into the very eyes of the Serene Majesty of Byzantium.
Veranilda George Gissing 1880
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It was only requisite for my understanding clearly to discern, to be convinced of the insuperability of this obstacle.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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