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impregnably

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im·preg·na·ble 1  (m-prgn-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to capture or enter by force: an impregnable fortress.
2. Difficult or impossible to attack, challenge, or refute with success: an impregnable argument.

[Middle English imprenable, from Old French : in-, not (from Latin in-; see in-1) + prenable, pregnauble, pregnable; see pregnable.]

im·pregna·bly adv.

im·preg·na·ble 2  (m-prgn-bl)
adj.
Capable of being impregnated.

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Adv.1.impregnably - in an impregnable manner; "the sight of that bland, impregnably righteous face has been enough to make their blood run cold"


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Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents partly comprise the most delicate oil; yet, you are now to be apprised of the nature of the substance which so impregnably invests all that apparent effeminacy.
 
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