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untransˈlatable, a.
(un-1 7 b, 5 b.)
Very common from the beginning of the 19th c.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. v. §36 Some few [words] untranslatable, without losse of life or lustre. 1694Gracian's Courtier's Oracle A 3 b, The French Author..counts him unintelligible, and by consequence untranslatable. 1742Gray Lett. II. 28 Pray put me the following lines into the tongue of our modern Dramatics:..To me they appear untranslatable. 1811Coleridge Table-t. (1835) II. 353 The excellence of verse, he said, was to be untranslatable into any other words. 1880T. Hodgkin Italy & Inv. i. ii. I. 193 The untranslateable grandeur of Claudian's epithet.
Hence untransˈlatableness; -ˈlatably adv.
1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. 160 The infallible test of a blameless style; namely, its untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning. 1855Smedley Occult Sciences 250 Concerning dreams—ut de accentibus somni—as he untranslatably styles them. 1889Athenæum 16 Nov. 671/1 The ugly proceedings untranslatably known as brique. |