All 6 Uses
ineffable
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- Her pure, red lips half smiled; her serene and candid brow became troubled, at intervals, under her thoughts, like a mirror under the breath; and from beneath her long, drooping, black eyelashes, there escaped a sort of ineffable light, which gave to her profile that ideal serenity which Raphael found at the mystic point of intersection of virginity, maternity, and divinity.†
Chpt 1.2.7
- Sometimes a mischievous child risked his skin and bones for the ineffable pleasure of driving a pin into Quasimodo's hump.†
Chpt 1.4.6 *
- Nevertheless, from her dull eyes there escaped a look, an ineffable look, a profound, lugubrious, imperturbable look, incessantly fixed upon a corner of the cell which could not be seen from without; a gaze which seemed to fix all the sombre thoughts of that soul in distress upon some mysterious object.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- The fury which had contracted it was followed by a strange smile full of ineffable sweetness, gentleness, and tenderness.†
Chpt 1.6.4
- yes," an ineffable something which wounded Fleur-de-Lys.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- The voice was that of Phoebus de Châteaupers; that which took place within her was ineffable.†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(ineffable) something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, ineffable can describe something that cannot be said due to social custom--such as the name of God.