Both Uses of
inscrutable
in
Don Quixote
- To this Don Quixote made answer, "Senora, your highness must know that everything or almost everything that happens me transcends the ordinary limits of what happens to other knights-errant; whether it be that it is directed by the inscrutable will of destiny, or by the malice of some jealous enchanter.†
Chpt 2.31-32
- Do thou, therefore, O Rhadamanthus, who sittest in judgment with me in the murky caverns of Dis, as thou knowest all that the inscrutable fates have decreed touching the resuscitation of this damsel, announce and declare it at once, that the happiness we look forward to from her restoration be no longer deferred.†
Chpt 2.69-70 *
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious