All 5 Uses of
ineffable
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- As ent'ring there we turn'd, voices, in strain Ineffable, sang: "Blessed are the poor In spirit."†
Canto 2.12-22 *
- The highest good Unlimited, ineffable, doth so speed To love, as beam to lucid body darts, Giving as much of ardour as it finds.†
Canto 2.12-22
- Then did I chide With warrantable zeal the hardihood Of our first parent, for that there were earth Stood in obedience to the heav'ns, she only, Woman, the creature of an hour, endur'd not Restraint of any veil: which had she borne Devoutly, joys, ineffable as these, Had from the first, and long time since, been mine.†
Canto 2.23-33
- CANTO X Looking into his first-born with the love, Which breathes from both eternal, the first Might Ineffable, whence eye or mind Can roam, hath in such order all dispos'd, As none may see and fail to' enjoy.†
Canto 3.1-11
- ] "The song of these spirits was ineffable. v. 86.†
Canto 3.N
Definition:
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(ineffable) something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe