INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two thin…

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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.104, 谷月社
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