ineliminable

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adjective

Unable to be eliminated.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveineliminable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUnable to be eliminated.

    In feminist thinking the masculine pronoun carries an ineliminable reference to the male sex, and therefore must be applied only to males.

    2002 December, Roger Scruton, “Language and Ideology”, in The Literary Review
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    Although ignorance of disability probably exaggerated the physical suffering of most people with disabilities in the minds of people without disabilities, the importance of ineliminable suffering must not be overlooked.

    1996, Suan Wendell, The Rejected Body, Routledge, page 82

    Because both reasons make ineliminable reference to the deliberating agent's perspective, each nicely captures the thought that the demands of that perspective are bound to play some central role in any adequate justification of the searchlight view.

    2009, George Sher, Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness, Oxford University Press, page 19

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Englisheliminable
  8. Englishineliminable

From in- + eliminable.

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Translations

Portuguese ineliminável
  • ineliminávelTranslations
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APA

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Chicago

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