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unconˈceivable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Inconceivable. (Common in 17–18th c.)
1611Cotgr., Incomprehensible, incomprehensible, vnconceiueable. 1612T. Taylor Comm., Titus ii. 14 Christ..willingly suffered such torments as are vnconceiuable. 1647Trapp Comm. Rev. ii. 17 The feast of a good conscience, which is unconceivable and full of glory. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 203 Many and great Pleasures, yet hidden from our Eyes, unutterable, unconceivable. 1768Woman of Honor II. 133 The effect this had..would be unconceivable but for one just reflexion. 1838[see unconceived ppl. a. 1]. 1867Pusey Eleven Addresses xi. (1908) 143 The souls of those, who are departed hence in the grace of God, are in unconceivable bliss.
Hence unconˈceivableness.
1611Cotgr., Incomprehensibilité, incomprehensiblenesse, vnconceiuablenesse. 1655H. More App. Antid. Ath. (1712) 185 The unconceivableness of that line that is produced by the Motion of a Globe on a Plane. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. vii. 337 The unconceivablenesse of supposing that a body..should always send forth from itself species on all sides. 1854Hallam Hist. Lit. (ed. 4) iii. iii. §119 marg., Unconceivableness of infinity. |