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innominable

innominable adjective: not to be named.

Adjective

innominable (not comparable)

  1. Not to be named.
    • Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both.c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love
    • It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ

Origin of innominable

From Middle English innominable, from Latin innominabilis, from in- (“not”) + nominare (“to name”). Compare French innominable.

Questions about innominable

What does innominable mean?
Innominable means not to be named.
What part of speech is innominable?
Innominable is an adjective.

Words near innominable in the dictionary

  1. innodated
  2. innodates
  3. innodating
  4. Innogen
  5. Innogens
  6. innominable
  7. innominata
  8. innominate
  9. innominate arteries
  10. innominate artery
  11. innominate bone

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