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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

indeclarable en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + declarable.

Meanings

  1. Not declarable; that can not be declared.
    • For the true mercy of God, although it had available an indeclarable number of ways to restore the human race, chose this way as best of all, in which, for the destruction of the Devil's work, use would be made not of the strength of power but of the claims of justice. 1970, The Faith of the Early Fathers, page 276:
    • It was a means of declaring the otherwise indeclarable, a method of externalizing and temporarily reconciling that highly unstable, even volatile, sexual difference that was felt within but not understood. 2005, Roger Kimball, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art:
    • It is uncomprehensible, unsearchable, and indeclarable. 1942, Francis Howgill, Gray Ridge: The Book of Francis Howgill:

Forms

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more indeclarable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most indeclarable Degree=Sup lexicographic