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unˈtraceable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
1661Boyle Style of Script. 20 Who can alone..fathom the depths of Satan, and track him through all his windings and (otherwise untraceable) Labyrinths. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. i. (1693) 199 If the wayes of Gods universall providence be untraceable. 1758Monthly Rev. 507 A proper and salutary quantity of this untraceable fluid. 1782–3W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 335 The untraceable way by which Divine Wisdom issues from the infinite ocean of God. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 293 The..hooping-cough..was untraceable to any apparent source. 1883J. Parker Apost. Life II. 167 Physical circumstances..operate in a subtle and often untraceable manner upon our..spiritual constitution.
absol.1818Milman Samor vii. 172, I know thee now, majestic Rebel! thee The untraceable, untameable!
Hence unˈtraceableness; unˈtraceably adv.
1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. III. iv. xvii. §4 This comparative Dimness and Untraceableness of the thoughts which are the sources of our admiration. 1875Whitney Life Lang. x. 207 The world of untraceably sexual or of unsexual objects. |