unparryable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ parry +‎ -able.

Adjective

unparryable (comparative more unparryable, superlative most unparryable)

  1. not able to be parried or dodged
    • 1900, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott: Volume 2, page 279:
      It is your fault, and I believe arises either from an ill-judged idea of smoothing matters to me — as if I were not behind the curtain — or a general reluctance to allow that any danger is near, until it is almost unparryable.
    • 2003, Bill Pottle, DreamQuest, page 117:
      It sliced through shields and swords vainly raised in an attempt to parry an unparryable blow as if it were light, yet when it struck, it was hard as forged iron.