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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unsearchable manner; inscrutably.

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Examples

  • In fine, these men agreed that the mind, reaching back, by its very structure, to the beginning of organic life, was limited by consciousness to a comparatively small number of its potentialities, whereas its subliminal life (on the contrary) was infinite and unsearchably subtle.

    The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900

  • It is well, therefore, amongst so many irrecoverable ruins, that, in the portrait at Aix-la-Chapelle, we still possess one undoubted representation (and therefore in some degree a means for identifying _other_ representations) of a female so memorably adorned by nature; gifted with capacities so unparalleled both of doing and suffering; who lived a life so stormy, and perished by a fate so unsearchably mysterious.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • It is well, therefore, amongst so many irrecoverable ruins, that, in the portrait at Aix-la-Chapelle, we still possess one undoubted representation (and therefore in some degree a means for identifying _other_ representations) of a female so memorably adorned by nature; gifted with capacities so unparalleled both of doing and suffering; who lived a life so stormy, and perished by a fate so unsearchably mysterious.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • But, secretly, I was struck with awe at the revelation of powers so unsearchably new, lurking within old affections so familiarly known as cold.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • But, secretly, I was struck with awe at the revelation of powers so unsearchably new, lurking within old affections so familiarly known as cold.

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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