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undiˈscoverable, a. (un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1642Quarles Observ. Princes & States lxxvi, It is the height of a provident Commander..to keepe his owne designes undiscoverable to the Enemy. 1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things ii. 79 Among the ends of God, which he thought undiscoverable by us. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 79 The multitude of events..produced by the concurrence of undiscoverable causes. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. §36 What..portion of such Plan it is, is at present undiscoverable by us. 1885Law Times 11 Apr. 420/2 The undiscoverable flaw constituted a breach of such warranty. Hence undiˈscoverableness.
1656Jeanes Fuln. Chr. 383 His riches are said to be unsearchable,..which Epithet denoteth the undiscoverablenesse of them by the light of nature. |