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  • adjective Impossible to convey.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ conveyable

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Examples

  • The dignity and charm with which he bowed to me were inimitable -- unconveyable.

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

  • For elegance of face and figure; for dignity, yet sweetness of manners, I never beheld his equal; and his native vivacity (almost perhaps as great as Mr. Stanley’s) is so happily blended with — or rather bounded by, a generous discretion (to use a new term to express ideas almost unconveyable) that every one who sees, and hears him speak, is obliged to love him.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

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