unconceivable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of unconceivable
First recorded in 1605–15; un- 1 + conceivable
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They could explain why a new material remains superconducting even at extremely high magnetic fields -- a property that is missing in conventional superconductors, with the potential to enable previously unconceivable technological applications.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
The responsibility of the individual to his government was unconceivable and inconceivable.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Joseph Hamblen Sears
Doubtless, from that height the saint can look behind him and before him; and to compare past with present things must needs raise in the blessed soul an unconceivable esteem and sense of its condition.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
But when we make a generall assertion, unlesse it be a true one, the possibility of it is unconceivable.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Logos of the Alexandrian was not an hypostasis, or a person, but a divine emanation or spirit; of a nature unconceivable, which hovered over the earth, but never touched it.
From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber
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