1554. Dial. on Laws Eng., I. xvi. 28 b. Though ignorance vnuincible of a statute excuse the party against God.
a. 1557. Mrs. M. Basset, trans. More’s Treat. Passion, M.’s Wks. 1392/2. To sende hym … a myghtye stronge vnuyncible armie of Aungels from heauen.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, xiii. 205. Imagination … deuiseth the engins … wherby vnuincible fortresses are won.
a. 1612. H. Broughton, Wks. (1662), III. 713. The assertion … is by an unvincible consequent denied by the Geneveans.
1658. J. Webb, Cleopatra, VIII. III. 69. Fanc[y]ing her Troops unvincible had this great person fought at their head.
Hence † Unvincibleness; † Unvincibly adv.
1581. Fulke, in Confer., III. (1584), U iiij b. Though the communion vnder both kindes bee proued vnuincibly by that testimonie.
1611. Florio, Inuincibilita, vnuinciblenesse.
