Incoercible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Difficult or impossible to coerce or control forcibly: incoercible rebel leaders.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
  • adj. Not capable of being reduced to liquid form by pressure.
  • adj. That cannot be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; said of heat, light, electricity, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
  • adj. Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical temperature.
  • adj. That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not to be coerced or compelled; incapable of being constrained or forced.
  • In physics, incapable of being reduced to a liquid form by any amount of pressure. Certain gases were formerly supposed to have this property. See gas.
  • In physical:
  • Incapable of reduction to tangible condition by pressure: applied to forms of energy, such as heat and electricity, when they were thought of as extremely subtile fluids.
  • Word Usage
    "Pacific Ocean shall pour into the Atlantic; when man will become more precious than fine gold, and when his ambition will be to subdue the elements, not to subjugate his fellow-creatures, to make fire, water, earth and air obey his bidding, but to leave the poor ethereal mind as the sole thing in Nature free and incoercible."
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    Words with the same meaning
    unyielding