a. Also 4 unuenkus-, 5 Sc. unvencusable. [UN-1 7 b.] Incapable of being vanquished or overcome.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. v. 20. He shal take the sheeld vnuenkusable.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Bk. Knychthede, vii. (S.T.S.), 56. Man has … stark curage unvencusable.
1561. T. N[orton], trans. Calvin’s Inst., III. xxi. 239. The vpholdyng stay of sounde affiance … to make vs vnuanquishable among so many dangers.
1613. Jackson, Creed, I. xv. § 3. Ouid faines Nisus his vnuanquishable fortune, to haue been seated in one haire.
1657. Earl Monm., trans. Paruta’s Pol. Disc., 162. He waged War with people … who were till then thought unvanquishable.
1728. Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 76. Able to make some little Incroachments on that Liberty which seem’d unvanquishable.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, II. 120. Toil and unvanquishable penury.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. ii. He is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.
