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INSEPARABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not capable of being separated
Example:
inseparable pieces of rock
Classified under:
Similar:
indivisible (impossible of undergoing division)
Context examples:
I knew that it was base in me not to think more of my aunt, and less of myself; but, so far, selfishness was inseparable from Dora, and I could not put Dora on one side for any mortal creature.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When I was very young, said Annie, quite a little child, my first associations with knowledge of any kind were inseparable from a patient friend and teacher—the friend of my dead father—who was always dear to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was chiefly edified, I am afraid, by the pictures, which were numerous, and represented all kinds of dismal horrors; but the Martyrs and Peggotty's house have been inseparable in my mind ever since, and are now.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)