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unintelligibleness

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Now this fine subtilty is a consequence of their putting bodies into a body, and so likewise is the unintelligibleness of the manner how one is contained in the other.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

But their main resource probably was in the obscurity, almost amounting to unintelligibleness, of their responses.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

His adjectives always embarrassed her: their unintelligibleness savored of impropriety.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

The obscurity or unintelligibleness," he says, "of one part of a prophecy does not in any degree invalidate the proof of foresight, arising from the appearing completion of those other parts which are understood.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

Thus while the two leaders were urged to coalescence by one motive, their followers were largely swayed by another, and this added much to the mystery and general unintelligibleness of the movement.

From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John