inassimilable
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Etymology edit
in- + assimilable
Adjective edit
inassimilable (not comparable)
- That cannot be assimilated.
- 1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148:
- I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom. The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of allosemitism.
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Adjective edit
inassimilable (plural inassimilables)
Further reading edit
- “inassimilable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.