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impregnable (adj) – 1. Impossible to capture or enter by force.
- Difficult or impossible to attack, challenge, or refute with success.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : Impregnable is one of the many English words that bear a French ancestry, thanks to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. It derives from the Middle French verb prendre, which means “to take or capture.” Combining prendre with various prefixes has given our language many other words, too, including surprise, reprise, and enterprise. Remarkably, impregnable has a different origin from the similar-looking word pregnant; that word comes from a different Latin word, praegnas, meaning “carrying a fetus.”
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