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uninˈtelligibleness
[un-1 12, or f. prec.]
†1. Lack of understanding. Obs.—1
1616Donne Serm. V. 466 God shall suffer him to settle..in an insensibleness and an unintelligibleness..of his own Condition.
2. The quality or fact of being unintelligible; unintelligibility.
1678R. Allestree Lively Oracles viii. §14. 201 We ordinarily have so much candor, as to impute their unintelligibleness to our own ignorance. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 347 The obscurity or unintelligibleness of one part of a prophecy. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. ii. 38 The Thing in Question seems to be forgotten, or kept out of Sight, in a Darkness and Unintelligibleness of Speech. 1832H. Melvill in Preacher III. 222/1 If it is unintelligible, it is the unintelligibleness of the Scriptures, and not of the commentator. 1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith ii. 69 The supposed unintelligibleness..of the doctrine. |