Adjective : susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations. ,susceptible to colds; susceptible to flattery. From Dictionary.com.
This thesis seems to me axiomatic and unsusceptible of argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
The officer body itself is not unsusceptible to the same temptation. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Let not mercy be the only virtue of which your heart is unsusceptible!. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
It was the rare mundane who was totally unsusceptible to their influence. From Wordnik.com. [Clockwork Angel] Reference
Nor is the ballet unsusceptible of a still higher order of histrionic display. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Cold as he was, and wretched as he declared himself to be, he was not wholly unsusceptible of attachments. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
"Universal bliss is assured by grown-up figures who never make mistakes, and are unsusceptible to criticism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Family] Reference
Both Schleiermacher and Otto hold that the most basic religious emotions are unsusceptible of propositional definition. From Wordnik.com. [Emotions in the Christian Tradition] Reference
Observe, -- the fact which metaphysic declares to be absolutely unsusceptible of analysis is "the perception of matter.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Hitherto rather unsusceptible to female charms, he became deeply enamored of Imoinda, on returning victorious from a great war. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
He therefore allowed it to stand as a presumption unsusceptible indeed of theoretical proof, but valid from a practical point of view. From Wordnik.com. [On Human Nature] Reference
Should he win for bride this sweet child of sixteen, whose transcendent loveliness made an impression even upon her own unsusceptible heart?. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Even the rude settlers, with nerves toughened by hardship, unsusceptible of atmospheric changes, were oppressed by the long, desolating drought. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
But suppose no person was present on the occasion of the death, -- and of course no one can be called to testify to it, -- is it wholly unsusceptible of legal proof?. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
He may be one of those rare moral geniuses, singularly unsusceptible to praise and blame, who create a new ideal of character by the dominant individuality of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
It is presumptuous to determine that these are the necessary conditions of all mental causation, when mental effects are experienced unsusceptible of being referred to them. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
In the first place, Slavery blunts the mind, and renders it, in its early years, unsusceptible to those impressions which are generally so lasting, when made upon youthful minds. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
There must be some such unsusceptible substances in nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
His dark and cruel nature was unsusceptible of a noble or generous impulse. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
Pelham is represented as almost wholly unsusceptible to the more poetical influences. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
North of that line, there is a clear cut entirely, unsusceptible of misinterpretation. From Wordnik.com. [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference
The moral possibility is wanting, and the generous occasion finds an unsusceptible rule. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
From below freezing up to 257 degrees Fahrenheit, the impact stabilized polycarbonate is unsusceptible to cracking and scratching. From Wordnik.com. [Press Releases] Reference
I'm an unsusceptible and a somewhat inconspicuous person -- not worth powder and shot, so to speak; for which I'm sometimes thankful. From Wordnik.com. [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference
They were motherless girls, and my heart, if hard, is not made of adamant or entirely unsusceptible to the calls of pity and friendship. From Wordnik.com. [That Affair Next Door] Reference
The definition of a word being the proposition which enunciates its meaning, words which have no meaning are unsusceptible of definition. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The only names which are unsusceptible of definition, because their meaning is unsusceptible of analysis, are the names of the simple feelings themselves. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
"Miss Gaunt -- let," whispered Miss Todd into the trumpet, separating the sounds well, so that they should not clash on the unsusceptible tympanum of her friend's ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
I think nothing unsusceptible of mathematical demonstration, can be clearer than the imperative necessity of Universal Education, as a matter simply of Public Economy. From Wordnik.com. [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference
However, colleges look for a rigorous course load and good grades as proof that their potential students are diligent workers and unsusceptible to the lure of laziness. From Wordnik.com. [Silver Chips Online] Reference
So, Master Bibbet being, as I said, unsusceptible of his duty, I went down with my poor rapier to the door, and demanded who was there; and I was answered in a voice, which. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
The center of consciousness in us is its own proof of its own being, and all that occurs within it is its own proof, and is unsusceptible of any other or foreign demonstration. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Is there or is there not after all something in human nature apparently unsusceptible of physical explanation and seeming to point to the possibility of a higher state of being?. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Situation] Reference
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