Both Uses of
ineffable
in
The Age of Innocence
- Her lips trembled into a smile, but the eyes remained distant and serious, as if bent on some ineffable vision.†
Chpt 3 *
- He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(ineffable) something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe