Both Uses of
ineffable
in
Nature, by Emerson
- These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.†
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- What splendid distance, what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset!†
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) 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.