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Indissoluble and its antonym dissoluble ("capable of being dissolved or disintegrated") both date their first print appearances to the 16th century, and both owe a debt to Latin dissolubilis, which means "dissoluble; capable of being dissolved." While the word dissolve in that gloss may call to mind the chemical process by which something mixed with a liquid becomes part of the liquid (as when salt or sugar dissolve in water), indissoluble primarily relates to other meanings of dissolve: "destroy" and "disintegrate," "terminate" and "annul." Something indissoluble—such as a treaty, contract, or vow—is permanent. The English word dissolve, in all its meanings, is a cousin to indissoluble and dissoluble. Dissolubilis derives from Latin dissolvere (from dis- + solvere, "to loosen") the source of our word dissolve.
Examples of indissoluble in a Sentence
Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
—Jack Butler, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
The love trial ended in mutual frustration, but their bond was indissoluble.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
But Céline’s reputation is indissoluble from his strange political fate.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety.
—Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
There’s an indissoluble complexity to the blockchain that forbids pithy description.
—Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
Kids was the dying breath of a city on the verge of indissoluble change.
—Elijah Wolfson, Newsweek, 26 July 2015
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“Indissoluble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indissoluble. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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