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Definition
impossible to overcome
- Neglect it — go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling — and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.Chapter 21 (79% in)
- Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.Chapter 4 (3% in)
- Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles?Chapter 25 (84% in)
- I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists.Chapter 26 (25% in)
- I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly.Chapter 26 (28% in)
There are no more uses of "insuperable" in Jane Eyre.
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