namable

[ ney-muh-buhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

There was quiet—an insect hum, no un-namable chitterings, except for the comforting rush of the river's water.

It seemed to be acknowledged between them that anything namable would be done to obtain a share of this hoard.

They are not summa genera of existences, still less are they to be explained as a classification of namable things in general.

He had been a Jesuit, p. 145but was unfrocked and expelled from Society for all sorts of namable and unnamable offences.

No namable printer appears at Haarlem until the end of 1483, when Jacob Bellaert set up a short-lived press there.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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