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ineffability|ɪnɛfəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality of being ineffable; unspeakableness.
1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 51 Amazed at the incomprehensiblenesse and ineffabilitie of such his Birth and Being. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xiii. xlvii. 241 With joyes ineffabilitie. 1721in Bailey. 1755in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xvi. 381 Ineffability... Noetic quality... These two characters will entitle any state to be called mystical, in the sense in which I use the word. 1922Joyce Ulysses 709 The supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. 1961M. Laski Ecstasy xxii. 243 When ineffable, etc. is attached to a noun, ‘supreme of its kind’..seems always to be implied. The ineffability device is particularly common among religious writers. |