Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Incomprehensibility.
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- noun The state of being
incomprehensible .
Etymologies
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Examples
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IN treating of the properties and perfections of God, I shall at present consider that which results from the infinite excellency of his nature and perfection, compared with the imperfection of our understandings, which is commonly called the incomprehensibleness of
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07. 1630-1694 1820
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"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness".
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One hung on a cross and died of physical weakness some hours before the two felons who were his hardier fellow sufferers, leaving a teaching compounded of such sweet and fine ideas of conduct, such mystical incomprehensibleness, such misleading inconsistency, that it remained a moral stimulus and an intellectual perplexity, a jungle for heresies and discoveries, for millions of souls for two millennia.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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For which reason the Father, knowing the incomprehensibleness of His own nature, assigned to the elements which He also terms AEons, [the power] of each one uttering its own enunciation, because no one of them was capable by itself of uttering the whole.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Practically every reviewer, including those who have praised it highly, has remarked upon its insensitivity to the ordinary conventions of grammar and literary craftsmanship, its repetitiousness, and near incomprehensibleness.
The Rise of Private Man Wolin, Sheldon S. 1977
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But we must leave it under the veil of infinite incomprehensibleness; though admiration and adoration of it be not without the highest spiritual satisfaction.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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The incomprehensibleness of my condition overwhelmed me.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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You shake your head at the vagueness and fanciful incomprehensibleness of my description of the expression in a young girl's face.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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I did not know what these were, they added to the sense of incomprehensibleness and general confusion.
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The infinity of days steps behind the screen of his incomprehensibleness, stoops and absolves himself into the spiritual and carnal elements of the finite, passes under the fierce rod of chastisement, enters
From log cabin to the pulpit, or, fifteen years in slavery, b. 1848 1913
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