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Synonyms for impassable

incapable of being negotiated or overcome

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Synonyms for impassable

incapable of being passed

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Cyril's dualistic deviations from Gregory, such as his acceptance of the impassability of the Word in Christ's suffering, result from an appropriation of Athanasius in a self-defense against accusations of theopaschitism.
In this case for its fuzzification we used data about the height range of the height model and setting of boundary for determination of impassability for the given means of transport.
God's impassability, possible demons, and fallibility, would presumably not challenge what he knows, if he knows everything a priori.
Expecting a dialogue but getting demands, Chief White Bird's face "assumed the condition of impassability, of rigid fixedness, while in council, and probably for fear that some passing event, some look or work, might surprise him into the betrayal of the slightest emotion, he kept his immense ceremonial hat on and placed a large eagle's wing in front of his eyes and nose." Howard may not have realized that White Bird was a powerful medicine person capable of "shooting" malevolent power towards others simply by a glance.
In Les carps glorieux, however, he changes Messiaen's impassabilite (Thomas Aquinas's impassabilitas) to impassiveness, rather than the more traditional impassability, thereby introducing the odd image of bored souls indifferent to their life in heaven.
Movement, transport and communication emancipate themselves from natural conditions--in Russia that means particularly liberation from the central importance of river navigation and of springtime, or of autumn impassability. It is no coincidence that the most important proponents of the Russian modernization project--the Bolsheviks--saw the vastness and impassability of the Russian landscape as an 'enemy' whose crippling and decelerating effect had to be fought and indeed 'liquidated'.
What remains for humans to contemplate are the negative assertions about God, such as His immortality, immutability, impassability, and invisibility.
His remarkable perf sculpts countless detailed steps in Standard's journey from confident success to a man made hollow by his clerk's impassability.
RBMU had worked in North Bihar since 1899, with a view to the ultimate opening of Nepal, but had since decided to suspend sending of new missionaries to the region because of the lack of results and the seeming impassability of the Nepal border.
"Impassability does not consist is mortifying the passionate part of the soul, but in removing it from evil to good, and directing its energies towards divine things ...
Their impassability in love, in crime, in mirth, in sorrow,--is heroic, superhuman, fascinating...I love the marionettes that are without life, that come so near to being immortal!