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imperceivable, a. Now rare.|ɪmpəˈsiːvəb(ə)l|
[f. im-2 + perceivable.]
Imperceptible.
a1617Bayne On Eph. (1658) 137 The working of this is sweet and imperceivable. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. vi, In a manner to us imperceivable. 1819W. Lawrence Lect. Man x. (1844) 377 There is no circumstance..which does not pass by imperceivable gradations into the opposite character.
Hence imperˈceivableness, imperceptibility; imperˈceivably adv., imperceptibly.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. viii. 297 This came vp secretly, closely, imperceiueably. a1714Sharp Serm. III. v. (R.), This imperceiveableness of the impressions made upon our souls by the Holy Spirit, was that which our Saviour signified to Nicodemus. |