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inassimilable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English assimilable English inassimilable From in- + assimilable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That cannot be assimilated.
    • I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom. The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of allosemitism. 1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148:

Synonyms

unassimilatable · unassimilable