Impassible

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impassible \Im*pas"si*ble\, a. [L. impassibilis; pref. im- not +
     passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See {Passible}.]
     Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to
     be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not
     showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the
     critic." --Sir W. Scott.


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           Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart
           Though naked, and impassible depart.     --Dryden.
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