invulnerate

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adjective

Invulnerable or unscathed.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveinvulnerate (comparative more invulnerate, superlative most invulnerate)

comparative more invulnerate · superlative most invulnerate

  1. obsoleteInvulnerable or unscathed.

    For horns (like horny callouses) are found / to grow on sculls that have receiv'd a wound, / are crackt, and broken; not at all on those / that are invulnerate and free from blows.

    1721, Samuel Butler, Satire upon marriage

Origin

  1. Latininvulnerātus“unwounded”
  2. Englishinvulnerate

First attested in 1680; borrowed from Latin invulnerātus (“unwounded”), from in- (“not”) + vulnerātus see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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Chicago

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