indeclarable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
in- + declarable
Adjective[edit]
indeclarable (comparative more indeclarable, superlative most indeclarable)
- Not declarable; that can not be declared.
- 1942, Francis Howgill, Gray Ridge: The Book of Francis Howgill:
- It is uncomprehensible, unsearchable, and indeclarable.
- 1970, The Faith of the Early Fathers, page 276:
- For the true mercy of God, although it had available an indeclarable number of ways to restore the human race, chose this way as best of all, in which, for the destruction of the Devil's work, use would be made not of the strength of power but of the claims of justice.
- 2005, Roger Kimball, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art:
- It was a means of declaring the otherwise indeclarable, a method of externalizing and temporarily reconciling that highly unstable, even volatile, sexual difference that was felt within but not understood.