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Meanings of unnameable in inglês

Too sacred to be uttered.

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Examples for "unspeakable"
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Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
The Irish Times
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His mother's disease, that great unspeakable subject, grew obscenely large between them.
The talisman
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We know how to comfort, how to help people speak the unspeakable.
The Guardian
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But that's how some people react to deception -with unspeakable violence.
Jamaica Observer
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The loss to literature and to his friends and family is unspeakable.
The Guardian
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We are left with something far more potent, an unspoken, unutterable horror.
The Guardian
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An unutterable sadness seizes the reader as the inevitable black thread appears.
Literary and Social Essays
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Thus ends, in unavoidable inadequacy, the attempt to utter the unutterable things.
Orthodoxy
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The men merely gaped and observed the miraculous revival with faith unutterable.
A Dream of the North Sea
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The reviewing page of the standard newspaper fills me with unutterable depression.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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The silence was a tribute to the ineffable sanctity of the place.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01
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It is the initial of the ineffable name, as known by us.
The Mysteries of Free Masonry / Containing All the Degrees of th...
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The ineffable peace of Death seemed to dwell upon the quiet features.
The Way of an Eagle
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She watched me in silence, and with an air of ineffable solicitude.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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The eyes of Venetia Corona followed her with something of ineffable pity.
Under Two Flags
Usage of unnameable in inglês
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The young people picked up on something strong and unnameable in him.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
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An unnameable tune tried to begin, then gave up with a mechanical sigh.
Sins of the Fathers
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An unnameable worry becomes a nameable one -a loss or a cut.
The Guardian
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It was not a curse, nor a prayer, but some third possibility, unnameable.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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Be sure that at the worst the unnameable shall not happen to the maids.
The Black Douglas
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Within the sea of light I glimpsed shapes cyclopean, unnameable.
The Metal Monster
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I felt an unnameable dread, a disgust beyond my understanding.
Underground
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I reach upward toward the unnameable which has no gender.
Drawing Down the Moon
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Where is he now-theunknown, the unnameable, the unforgettable ideal?
A Hungarian Nabob
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The man cursed, devoting himself and Paul to unnameable penalties.
Despair's Last Journey
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The body is the seat of unnameable impurities, it is loathsome and full of pain.
Twenty-Two Goblins
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Across its face weaved unnameable carvings-butI had no time for more than a glance.
The Moon Pool
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Had the Thing, a Thing unnameable, indescribable, stood there?
Brood of the Witch-Queen
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What is it then, this persistent, obscure, unnameable Thing?
The Greek View of Life
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The feeling was mixed with horror and joy, and the whole of the emotion was unnameable.
The gunslinger
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He was acutely conscious of an unnameable fear.
Tales of Chinatown
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