All 3 Uses of
ineffable
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- He began with being a young man of promise; at Oxford he distinguished himself, to his father's ineffable satisfaction, and the people about him said it was a thousand pities so clever a fellow should be shut out from a career.†
Chpt 5 *
- She submitted, still with her pure, trusting smile, in which there was something ineffably passive.†
Chpt 37
- The things she had said were answered only by his scorn, and she could see he was ineffably ashamed of her.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe