[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being unconquerable.
1647. Sprigge, Anglia Rediv., To Englishmen, We would least of all be thought … to fixe unconquerablenesse … upon this Army.
1652. Heylin, Cosmogr., II. 254. When all the Persians soothed the King in the unconquerableness of his forces; Artabanus told him [etc.].
1866. Ruskin, Eth. Dust, 182. Some real notion of the extent and the unconquerableness of our ignorance.
1901. ‘Linesman’ (M. H. Grant), Words by Eyewitness (1902), v. 75–6. The greatest of the three failures which, whilst almost unnerving England, nerved her retreating soldiers to a pitch of absolute unconquerableness on the triumphant anniversary of Majuba.
