indissoluble

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 17, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>indissoluble</strong> &#149; \in-dih-SAHL-yuh-bul\&nbsp; &#149; <em>adjective</em><br /> <p><strong>:</strong> not <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissoluble">dissoluble</a>; <em>especially</em> <strong>:</strong> incapable of being annulled, undone, or broken <strong>:</strong> <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/permanent">permanent</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"He was the only soul aboard with whom I could speak openly, in an absolute sense; for that matter, he to me the same. We were locked together in an <em>indissoluble</em> embrace, its nature the most simple and straightforward first principle: that no hurt should reach the men that we could prohibit." — <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qeZrAAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA110#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">William Brinkley, <em>The Last Ship</em>, 1988</a></p> <p>"Pope Francis … has acknowledged the concerns of divorced Catholics. He has set in motion a high-level debate about whether and how the church could change its posture toward them without altering a doctrine that declares marriage to be permanent and <em>indissoluble</em>." — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/us/as-vatican-revisits-divorce-many-catholics-long-for-acceptance.html">Michael Paulson, <em>The New York Times</em>, 24 Jan. 2015</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Indissoluble</em> and its antonym <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissoluble">dissoluble</a></em> ("capable of being dissolved or disintegrated") both date their first print appearances to the 16th century, and both owe a debt to Latin <em>dissolubilis</em>, which means "dissoluble; capable of being dissolved." While the word <em>dissolve</em> in that gloss may call to mind the chemical pr