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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unvincible, -vinsibill, -vynsable, Wnnvincible, Wnvinsibell, -abell, adj. [e.m.E. vnuincible (1554), vnuyncible (a1557); var. of Invincible adj.] a. Of an argument, authority, etc.: Incontrovertible, irrefutable. b. Of a person, etc.: Unconquerable. c. Of a building: Impregnable. —a. 1490 Irland Mir. I 70/19.
Mony and wnnuincibile autoriteis provis the sammyn 1563 G. Hay Confutation Abbot Crosraguel 65.
These thinges … be not arguments of suche strenth, as be unvincible —b. 1460 Hay Alex. 1871.
Ane vnui[n]sibill stane on him he bare Was neuir batall vinquest quhare it ware a1568 Dunb. in Bann. MS 109a/25.
[Death] that strang vnvynsable [M. unmercifull] tirrand —c. 1615 Bk. Islay 295.
To demand … gif he said to the counsell that the hous was wnvinsabell [Highland P. III 236, wnvinsibell]
