infrangible

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The Word of the Day for September 29 is: 

infrangible   \in-FRAN-juh-bul\   adjective
          1 : not capable of being broken or separated into parts
    *2 : not to be infringed or violated

Example sentence:
          Page explained that family is sacred to her because she believes that 
few things in life are more infrangible than the bonds of kinship.

Did you know?
          "Infrangible" comes to us via Middle French from the Late Latin 
“infrangibilis” and is ultimately derived from the prefix “in-” and the Latin 
verb “frangere,” meaning "to break." (Believe it or not, our "break" is 
ultimately derived from the same ancient word that gave rise to “frangere.”) 
"Infrangible" first appeared in print in English in the 16th century with the 
literal meaning "impossible to break"; it was later extended metaphorically to 
things that cannot or should not be broken.





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