OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31743

impossibility

/ɪmˌpɒsɪˈbɪliti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imposibilidad
The quality of being impossible.
1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VIII, year 15, After long reasonyng, there wer certain ap…
[L]et the mutinous winds / Strike the proud cedars ’gainst the fiery sun; / Murdering impossibility, to make / What cannot be, slight work.
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