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uniˈmaginable, a. and n.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. adj. Incapable of being imagined; inconceivable, incomprehensible.
1611Cotgr., Inimaginable, vnimaginable, vnconceiuable. a1631Donne Serm. i. (1634) 30 Miserable, unexpressible, unimaginable, macerable condition, where [etc.]. 1655H. More App. Antid. vii. 377 It is utterly unimaginable, but that there should be a Triangular distance in the midst of them. 1746Hervey Medit., Refl. Flower Garden 42 With what un-imaginable Complacency, does Justice rest satisfied! 1821Scott Kenilw. vi, I shall thank him more for the love that has created such an unimaginable paradise, than for all the wonders it contains! 1878P. Bayne Purit. Rev. i. 7 To believe in an unseen and unimaginable Spirit.
2. n. pl. = inexpressible n. 2.
1833T. Hamilton Men & Manners (1843) 391 The men..rejoiced in snuff-coloured waistcoats and unimaginables.
Hence uniˈmaginableness.
1659H. More Immort. Soul i. vi. 37 The unimaginableness of Points and smallest Particles. 1871W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) I. 17 That the unimaginableness of a proposition is incompatible with its truth. |