1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., II. 83. When a number of successive lines can be rendered … unrecognizable as verse,… by simply transcribing them as prose.
1847. Ld. Lindsay, Chr. Art, I. p. cxlii. He returned so disfigured…, that he was unrecognisable save by his voice.
Hence Unrecognizableness; -ably adv.
1879. Stevenson, Trav. Cevennes, 49. The mist had almost unrecognisably exaggerated their forms.
1883. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W., 303. One of the most recognisable characteristics of life is its unrecognisableness.
