a. (UN-1 7 b.)
In frequent use from c. 1840.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 354. God is celestiall, ineffable, and un-name-able.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 270. Invisible and unnameable powers and persons.
1834. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. 234. Oh the saltings, the picklings,… the unnamed and unnameable confectionery doings over which she presided!
1874. Lisle Carr, Jud. Gwynne, I. iv. 120. Her lustrous eyes wide distended with unnamable horror.
absol. 1818. Milman, Samor, XI. 387. Th’ Unnameable, he fix’d On his flint pedestal.
Hence Unnameability.
1862. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XIV. v. III. 695. The Reich … will go ever deeper into anarchies and unnameabilities.
