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unperˈceivable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Imperceptible.
a1395Hylton Scala Perf. ii. viii. (W. de W. 1494), Thorugh a pryue vnperceyuable worchyng of the holy ghost. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. (1908) 290 In a moment, that is in an vnperceyuable short tyme. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. 284 Who knowes not how vnperceivable the neighbourhood betweene folly with the liveliest elevations of a free minde is. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 45 Their motion, being made in time vnperceiuable by vs. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §72 The particles of the..vapours, which are themselves unperceivable. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 619 The chain of causes and effects..divides into so many unperceivable threads. 1801Monthly Mag. XII. 422 One of those French reputations, which, when weighed in the European scale, is almost unperceivable. a1882T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics 347 That God is as unimaginable as he is unperceivable.
Hence unperˈceivableness.
1611Florio, Impercettibilita, vnperceiuablenesse. |