undisplaceable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + displaceable
Adjective[edit]
undisplaceable (not comparable)
- Not displaceable.
- 1965, Ralph Manheim (translator), Dog Years (1963) by Günter Grass, New York: Fawcett, 1969, Book One, “Ninth Morning Shift,”
- […] scarcely had the company left the Bohnsack Fishermen’s Church when the ordinarily undisplaceable gulls clouded up from the square.
- 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 2:
- Their love letters became a vehicle for arguments that gruelled her in the new term and infuriated her, with their revelation of something absolutely undisplaceable in her nature, her Catholic faith.
- 1965, Ralph Manheim (translator), Dog Years (1963) by Günter Grass, New York: Fawcett, 1969, Book One, “Ninth Morning Shift,”