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Undiminishable

UNDIMIN'ISHABLE

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Adj.
Not capable of diminution.

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undiminishable

undiminishable

English

Adjective

undiminishable (comparative more undiminishable, superlative most undiminishable)

  1. Unable to be diminished.
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Character", in, 1844, Essays. Second Series,
      The purest literary talent appears at one time great, at another time small, but character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
    • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 52,
      ...could have disfigured or coarsened his his bounteous good looks in a day or a second. But what was undiminishable... was an authentic esprit... .