indomitable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.

   Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.

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Simplified etymology

Indomitable comes from late Latin indomitabilis, meaning “not able to be tamed.” Its early English sense was “untameable.”

From Late Latin indomitābilis, from in- (“not”) + domitō, frequentative of domō (“to tame”). By surface analysis, in- + domitable.

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