inscrutable
adjective
incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
inscrutableness
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a word derived from
inscrutable.
Example Sentences
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Ah Cho pondered their inscrutableness as he sat in the court room waiting the judgment.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by Jack London
The illumination that had brought it out was now faded, and all was a blur, an inscrutableness, a scrawl of unintelligible characters alike.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The inscrutableness however of the mystery they contained, did not suffice to overwhelm my courage.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Father and son have both died, as it were, in my presence, and both have departed for the world of spirits, in a manner to prove the inscrutableness of Providence.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
He saw that human life doth truly come from that, which all men are agreed to call by the name of God; and that it partakes of the unravelable inscrutableness of God.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
