单词 | unrepresentable |
释义 | unrepresentableadj. Not capable of being represented. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [adjective] > represented > capable of being > not unrepresentable1663 1663 W. Lucy Observ. Errours Hobbes Leviathan xxx. 285 An unspeakable, an incommunicable, unexpressible, an unrepresentable excellency. 1775 Tyranny Unmasked 2 The much boasted supremacy of Parliament, to tax an unrepresented and unrepresentable part of British subjects. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 20/2 Unrepresentable by any kind of musical instrument at present known. 1850 H. Bushnell God in Christ 156 The Unapproachable, and, as far as all measures of..conception are concerned, the Unrepresentable God. 1902 Philos. Rev. 11 377 Must an unrepresentable time be assumed? 2013 Renaissance Q. 66 87 Responses to the unrepresentable nature of the Christian faith. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1663 |
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