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INDEFENSIBILITY n.

The quality or state of not being defensible. Walsh.

INDEFENSIBLE n.

Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.

INDEFENSIBLY adv.

In an indefensible manner.

Defenseless. [Obs.] The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.

INDEFICIENCY n.

The state or quality of not being deficient. [Obs.] Strype.

Not deficient; full. [Obs.] Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.

Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. Bp. Reynolds.

INDEFINABLY adv.

In an indefinable manner.

INDEFINITE a. 4 definitions

Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise; uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite time, plan, etc. It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off that indefinite way of vouching, "the chymists say this," or "the chymists affirm that."…

INDEFINITELY adv.

In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray.

INDEFINITENESS n.

The quality of being indefinite.

INDEFINITUDE n.

Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.

INDEHISCENCE n.

The property or state of being indehiscent.

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

INDELECTABLE a.

Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable. [R.] Richardson.

INDELIBERATE a.

Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [Obs.] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.]

INDELIBERATED a.

Indeliberate. [Obs.]

INDELIBILITY n.

The quality of being indelible. Bp. Horsley.

INDELIBLE a. 2 definitions

That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with wors…