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irrecognizable, a.|ɪˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzəb(ə)l|
[ir-2.]
Incapable of being recognized; unrecognizable.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. vii, Mirabeau..is cast forth..and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night. a1849Poe Longfellow, etc. Wks. 1864 III. 357 That a lover may so disguise his voice from his mistress as even to render his person in full view irrecognisable. 1887Spectator 10 Sept. 1209 Of the dead a large number are irrecognisable, so deeply have they been charred.
Hence irrecognizability |ɪˌrɛkəgnaɪzəˈbɪlɪtɪ|, the condition of being unrecognizable; iˈrrecogˌnizably adv.
1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1872) 95 No thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner or later, recognisably or irrecognisably, on all men! 1847― in Corr. w. Emerson II. cvi. 131 May the Lord..teach us to look Facts honestly in the face and to beware..of smearing them over with our despicable and damnable palaver into irrecognizability. |