indiscoverable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of indiscoverable
First recorded in 1630–40; in- 3 + discoverable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Some days passed and a rumour went about the town, in its origin as indiscoverable as the birthplace of the winds.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
Any student will remark at a first glance what a short-breathed runner, what a broken-winded athlete in the lists of tragic verse, is the indiscoverable author of this play.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund
And if Drimdarroch had seemed ill to find from Doom, he was absolutely indiscoverable here.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
But we at times hear sounds more extraordinary, of which the origin and cause are indiscoverable by us, and which produce in us the profoundest awe and terror.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
Nor power nor will has love to find or seek Words indiscoverable, ampler strains of song Than ever hailed him fair or shewed him strong: And less than these should do him worse than wrong.
From Locrine: a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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