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 Neil Munro
Not long before he had seen it in the thicket, but now it was indiscoverable, however much he would have preferred to observe the storm from its shelter.
From The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
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 Edmund Gosse
But the thing is impossible, and, what's more, we know what ridiculous fallibility people display when they imagine they have found the best substitute for that indiscoverable.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
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