Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being inscrutable; inscrutability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.
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- noun
Inscrutability
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Examples
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Ah Cho pondered their inscrutableness as he sat in the court room waiting the judgment.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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It seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue that if followed properly would make all her strangeness plain.
SAMUEL 2010
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This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe.
Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers
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It seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue that if followed properly would make all her strangeness plain.
Samuel 1914
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The following four utterances of Yahweh illustrate the inscrutableness, already touched upon by Eliu, of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Ah Cho pondered their inscrutableness as he sat in the court room waiting the judgment.
The Chinago 1911
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Cho pondered their inscrutableness as he sat in the court-room waiting the judgment.
The Chinago 1909
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Only let me not despair in Thee, because of this inscrutableness.
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But even then, as she stood leaning against the wall, motionless save for the surging of her breast, there was about her the same strange, feral inscrutableness.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Nor did Lise enlighten him, being gifted with a certain inscrutableness.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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