Pronunciations
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/ɪnɪˈnæɹəb(ə)l/
Pronunciation notes
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Adjective
That cannot be told; indescribable, inexpressible, unspeakable.
Usage- Formal
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For where almyghty god is reſydent all thynges be good, whoſe goodnes is inenarrable and euerlaſtynge.
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And Saint Peter saith that whoso believe in Christ, although they be afflicted with divers temptations, yet they rejoice with a glorious and inenarrable joyfulness.
The heavenly sound which shall be inenarrable, / Into their ears continually shall ring. / And eke the sight of Christ Jesus our King.
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VVonderfull and inenarrable is the hardneſſe of a Diamant: beſides it hath a Nature to conquer the furie of fire, nay, you ſhall never make it hote, doe what you can: for this untamable vertue that it hath, the Greekes have given it the name Adamas.
The princes then, and navy that did bring / Those so inenarrable troops, and all their soils, I sing.
The pleasance of our starry residence, / In human, bald speech inenarrable, / Transcends your dreams of Arcady and Eden.
Who has not kept, at least, a vague remembrance of this state of our infant bosom when it was permitted to saturate itself, without admixture of forcing reasons and reasoning, with the emotions produced by new contacts, new movements, new colors, new sounds, new voices, new associations, new sceneries, new people; […] But how few children are allowed the inenarrable delicacies of this education by the sympathies!
Shall I not crown them with immortal praise / Whom I have loved, who have given me, dared with me / High secrets, and in darkness knelt to see / The inenarrable godhead of delight?
The following pages develop the byplay [in Ernest Hemingway's short story The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936)] between Macomber's selfish ignorance and Wilson's awareness, though they convey also that any level of human awareness is unmatched by the inenarrable purposefulness of he lion, who knows only its suffering and what it must do.
These scenes—filled with interpersonal violence, killings, and verbal and physical abuse—gradually become the inenarrable episodes in the film, episodes that tense up or challenge their own narrative flow.