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Italian
Etymology
in- (“un-, in-, not”, negative prefix) + defettibile (“fallible”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.de.fetˈti.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -ibile
- Hyphenation: in‧de‧fet‧tì‧bi‧le
Adjective
indefettibile (plural indefettibili) (literary)
- not capable of fault: infallible, unfailing
- Synonym: infallibile
- Antonyms: defettibile (literary), fallibile (uncommon)
- not liable to disappear or lack: unfailing, ever-present
- Synonym: immancabile
- Antonym: defettibile (literary)
early 1670s, Francesco Fulvio Frugoni, chapter L (chapter 50), in Moralizzamenti critici sopra alcuni testi del prologo dell'Epulone; republished in L'Epulone, opera melodramatica esposta, con le prose morali critiche, Venice: Combi & La Noù, 1675, page 432:Se ſi niega che ’l tutto creato ſia defettibile nella ſoſtanza, e perciò ſi dica che ſia nella ſoſtanza increato; dunque è indefettibile nella forma- [Se si niega che 'l tutto creato sia defettibile nella sostanza, e perciò si dica che sia nella sostanza increato, dunque è indefettibile nella forma]
- If one denies that everything created is, in its essence, susceptible to disappearing—and, therefore, says that it is uncreated in its essence—it is then ever-present in its form
1764 [1744], “Libro secondo”, in I piaceri dell'immaginazione, translation of The Pleasures of the Imagination by Mark Akenside (in English); republished in Opere del signor Angelo Mazza , fra gli arcadî Armonide Elideo, volume 4, Parma: Giuseppe Paganino, 1818, page 67:[…] tutto ch’ha vita aspira a Dio,
De gli Enti immenso, indefettibil Sole,
Centro de l’alme. […]- all that has life aspires to God, immense, unfailing sun of the beings, center of the souls.
Derived terms
References
- indefettibile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana