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adjective

Immovable adj.

1.

Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; used of material things; as, an immovable foundation. "Immovable, infixed, and frozen round."

2.

Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remains immovable.

3.

Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.

4.

(Law.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.

Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place.

Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

noun

Immovable n.

1.

That which can not be moved.

2.

pl. (Civil Law) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.

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"Immovable" Quotes from Famous Books

... which really amounts to asking, "Can the Almighty destroy His own omnipotence?" It is somewhat similar to the other question, "What would happen if an irresistible moving body came in contact with an immovable body?" Here we have simply a contradiction in terms, for if there existed such a thing as an immovable body, there could not at the same time exist a moving body that ...

— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... enthusiasts of the new school, partly carried away by its characteristic admiration of the heroism of their attack and the fiery eloquence of their champion, Ruskin, and perhaps not quite assured of its final effect, forgets to unmask its terrible artillery. But to upset the almost immovable English conservatism, to teach the nation new ways of thought and feeling, in a generation! Cromwell could not do it; and this wave of reform that now surges up against those prejudices, more immovable than the white cliffs of Albion, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... therefore must lay hold on every human being at his birth, and direct his education with powerful hand. Solon's weak confidence threw Athens into fresh slavery, while Lycurgus's severity founded the republic of Sparta on an immovable basis."[197] These words, which come from a decree of the Committee of Public Safety, might well be taken for an excerpt from the Social Contract. The fragments of the institutions by which Saint Just intended to regenerate his country, reveal a man with the example ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... grief, or to face the harder trial of witnessing her speechless despair. But they were not prepared for her invincible resolution to read the Instructions; for the terrible questions which she had put to the lawyer; for her immovable determination to fix all the circumstances in her mind, under which Michael Vanstone's decision had been pronounced. There she stood at the window, an unfathomable mystery to the sister who had never been parted from her, to the governess who had trained her from ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... but the same line courtesy which led him to give up his cigar, was shown again as he spared her the mortification of even a questioning glance, still less of a look of amusement, although she watched his dumb, immovable figure with apprehension ...

— The True Citizen, How To Become One • W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B.

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