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undisplaceable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + displaceable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not displaceable.
    • 1965, Ralph Manheim (translator), Dog Years (1963) by Günter Grass, New York: Fawcett, 1969, Book One, “Ninth Morning Shift,” […] scarcely had the company left the Bohnsack Fishermen’s Church when the ordinarily undisplaceable gulls clouded up from the square.
    • Their love letters became a vehicle for arguments that gruelled her in the new term and infuriated her, with their revelation of something absolutely undisplaceable in her nature, her Catholic faith. 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 2: