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Meanings of inestimable in English

Beyond calculation or measure.

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So precious that the value cannot be measured with money.

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Examples for "immeasurable"
Examples for "immeasurable"
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It is not true; it is an immeasurable distance from the truth.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays / 1909
2
Thank you and all of your family for your immeasurable sacrifice King.
Ebony
3
The North owes an immeasurable debt to both races in the South.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 04, April, 1889
4
It is a place of immense wealth, immeasurable innovation and immaculate environment.
News.com.au
5
The injury to the morale of the fleet must have been immeasurable.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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The number of marriages built in this way, upon false foundations of hollowness and despair, is incomputable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 / A Magazi...
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This assumes that something is computable, when really everything is more or less incomputable (and rare events more so).
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
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They were born and they die for ends to them as incomputable as the path of a cannon-shot fired into the darkness.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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This pagan proposition of being born in sin is pollution to the mind of a child, and causes misery, unrest and heartache incomputable.
Love, Life & Work / Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Nat...
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For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
Usage of inestimable in English
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Both in attack and defence the Naval Brigade had performed inestimable services.
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
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Hence the inestimable value of unity, the leading issue of the war.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 / Devoted t...
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Immediately new processes of inestimable value revealed themselves; new methods were suggested.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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On the walls, tapestries of inestimable value curled with the outside air.
The last page
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After all, it has the inestimable advantage of hindsight. She was right.
News.com.au
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He has been of inestimable use to me in my intellectual development.
Life of Father Hecker
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The immense erudition of Bailly would have given it an inestimable value.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men / First Series
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Nevertheless, as a personal document, the Everhard Manuscript is of inestimable value.
The Iron Heel
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The last day which I spent with Paoli appeared of inestimable value.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and...
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The inestimable treasures of Poetry again are open to all of us.
The Pleasures of Life
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From California to Cape Horn the inestimable system of self-government was established.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 / A Magazine ...
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She possesses the inestimable good of being bound by a great tradition.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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There are few better contemporary film reviewers that the inestimable J Hoberman.
The Irish Times
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The nation is worth fighting for, to secure such an inestimable jewel.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
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The war ending soon after, his inestimable services came to a close.
Dewey and Other Naval Commanders
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His opinion became, therefore, of inestimable value to the cause of freedom.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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