Immovable
Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.
Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.
Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.
That which can not be moved.
Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.
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Immovable Quotations
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Nicolas Malebranche
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
Coleman Young
Immovable Translations
immovable in Latin is insuadibilis
immovable in Norwegian is ubevegelig, urokkelig
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