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irrepresentable, a.|ɪrɛprɪˈzɛntəb(ə)l|
[ir-2.]
Not representable; incapable of representation.
1673H. More App. Antid. Idol. 4 To set up such a Symbolical presence..to represent God, who is irrepresentable, as being infinite in Majesty and Greatness. a1699Stillingfleet (J.), God's irrepresentable nature doth hold against making images of God. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. xii. 278 They take..the words irrepresentable and impossible in one and the same meaning. 1827De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XXI. 17 Progressive actions, as such, are irrepresentable by painting. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. xiii. vi. 315 No model whatever of matter per se being presentable to us in knowledge, the material universe per se must for ever remain absolutely irrepresentable by us in thought.
Hence irrepreˈsentableness.
1673H. More App. Antid. Idol. 28 Whether the doing Divine worship towards the Image of Christ violates the irrepresentableness of the Godhead or no. |