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unˈnam(e)able, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
In frequent use from c 1840.
1610J. Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 354 God is celestiall, ineffable, and un-name-able. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 270 Invisible and unnameable powers and persons. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 234 Oh the saltings, the picklings,..the unnamed and unnameable confectionery doings over which she presided! 1874L. Carr J. Gwynne I. iv. 120 Her lustrous eyes wide distended with unnamable horror.
absol.1818Milman Samor xi. 387 Th' Unnameable, he fix'd On his flint pedestal.
Hence unnameaˈbility.
1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiv. v. III. 695 The Reich..will go ever deeper into anarchies and unnameabilities. |