unrenderableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrɛnd(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɛnd(ə)rəb(ə)l/ That cannot be rendered (in various senses).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adjective] > incapable of being imitated
inimitable1531
unshadowable1640
unrenderable1827
inimitative1835
unforgeable1837
unlikenable1845
unreproducible1845
uncopiable1846
unrepeatable1846
1827 Christian Advocate Nov. 488/2 Words..which are absolutely unrenderable into any thing but circumlocutory expression.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 95 The best beauty of flowers being wholly inimitable, and their sweetest service unrenderable by art.
1889 Athenæum 10 Aug. 187/3 A rendering of Sappho's unrenderable ‘Ode to Aphrodite’.
1966 Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 8 248 Beethoven has done this on other occasions when he had to give form to what is unrenderable.
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Oct. b6 The experience of eternity..is unrenderable through the linear structures of language and time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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