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unˈgraspable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
1741Richardson Pamela I. Introd. p. xxvi, A beautiful Girl of Sixteen, who..had not, yet, reach'd ungraspable Roundness. 1822Pollok in D. Pollok Life (1843) 129 The ungraspable spectres of the night. 1853Card. Wiseman Ess. II. 305 Of all slippery phrases in controversy, a metaphorical one is the most ungraspable. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. 168 How ungraspable is the fact that real men ever did fight in real armour. |