indiscoverable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of indiscoverable
First recorded in 1630–40; in- 3 + discoverable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
Comets, with tails like O'Connell, are so common as to lose attraction, and blaze by weekly into indiscoverable realms.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
The danger--what it is--is indiscoverable, because some strange being, which appears to set at defiance all astrological science, seems to be concerned in it.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
How they will alter and vary, never the same for long together, but led by indiscoverable caprices and obedient to some further will.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter
Even the royal names round which they revolved were sometimes indiscoverable in the authentic annals of Egypt.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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