Innominable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not to be named. not-comparable

    "Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both."

Example

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"Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both."

Etymology

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

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