† unexpressableadj.
Obsolete.
= unexpressible adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > inexpressibility > [adjective]
unsayinglyOE
wordlessa1200
unanemneda1225
unspeaking1340
untellablea1382
unenarrable1382
unspeakablea1400
ineffablec1450
inenarrablec1450
indicible1480
enarrable1482
inexplicable1502
inspeakable?1504
innominable1532
unoutspeakable1535
unexpressable1548
innarrable1554
inpronunciable1554
uncommunicable1555
inexprimablea1577
unexpressiblea1586
unutterablea1586
expressless1590
nameless1597
recountless1601
inutterable1603
indeclarable1610
unnameable1610
unreportable1611
speakless1612
unexpressivea1616
inexpressiblea1631
utterless1643
inexpressive1652
unwordablec1660
incommunicable1694
paintless1729
descriptionless1749
undelineable1767
describeless1799
indefinable1810
undescribable1818
unqualifiable1822
untelling1823
utterless1832
unpindownable1915
1548 G. Wishart tr. Confescion Fayth Sweserlandes xxii We exulte and rejoyce with a myrth unexpressable in wordes.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Oo2 As well consorted partes to such an vnexpressable [1621 vnexpressible] harmonie.
1607 S. Hieron Bridegroome in Wks. (1620) I. 468 Now she..still beggeth with Him by sighes vnexpressable.
1652 Eliza's Babes 75 A felicity that fils our hearts with an unexpressable delight.
1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 70 To the..unexpressabl refreshing of the..faithful Servants of Christ.
c1721 Marquis of Tullibardine Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 126 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 Those who find their account in unexpressable confusion.
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