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2 translations across 2 languages.
6 total sentences available.
Whatsoever has been said before me, even on any subject, surely it belongs thereto that it can be repeated by me in rehearsal, and hence it does not seem possible that in this sense it should be so fitly called unspeakable or unsayable.
Source: wiktionary
Nonetheless, in some unsayable way, value sentences are about values and reflect the structure of values.
Source: wiktionary
The unsaid drives us to “speak;” but, in some ways, there are limitations on what we can say, because some part always remains unsaid — we must always attempt to say the unsayable.
Source: wiktionary
His task: to say the unsayable. To say all the words we have normally suppressed and to say them and say them and say them.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include indefinable, ineffable, inexpressible, unspeakable, unutterable.
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