inseparable
adjective
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Pronunciation: /inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
- Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
“People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.”
“In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
- Something that cannot be separated from something else.
“Jayanta does so in answering an opponent who declares that the very idea of a relation between two inseparables is self-contradictory. How can inseparability and relation be reconciled?”