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  • adjective rare Intangible.

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  • adjective Archaic form of intangible.

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Examples

  • Spirits appertain here also, which appear in a fiery shape, or like a burning Light; all these are Spirits having untangible Bodies, yet are they not such Spirits as the right Hellish Spirits, who hunt after mens

    Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. Basilius Valentinus

  • And yet, I have prayed, I have long prayed to God -- not, my friend to that untangible God whom we pursue in vain beyond the stars and the worlds, but the only true God, truly kind and helpful to suffering humanity, the God of my childhood, the God of that poor woman!

    Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Octave Feuillet 1855

  • Yes but those untangible financial products generate tangible £42B in net exports/annum providing these services to the rest off the world.

    The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2010

  • That digital property belongs to everyone because it’s untangible?

    Apple TV: a ‘new chill’ 2005

  • Mr. Lennox saw now that he had annoyed his companion; and as he had talked pretty much for the sake of saying something, and so passing the time while their road lay together, he was very indifferent as to the exact side he took upon the question, and quietly came round by saying: 'To be sure, there is something fine in a man of Mr. Hale's age leaving his home of twenty years, and giving up all settled habits, for an idea which was probably erroneous -- but that does not matter -- an untangible thought.

    North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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