inenubilable
adjEtymology
From English in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + Latin ēnūbilāre (“to clear of clouds or mist; (figurative) to clear of obscurity”) + English -able (suffix meaning ‘able to be done’ forming adjectives), possibly coined by the English critic and essayist Max Beerbohm (1872–1956): see the 1903 and 1911 quotations below. By surface analysis, in- + e- + Latin nubil- + -able. Ēnūbilāre is derived from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix denoting privation)) + nūbilus (“cloudy, overcast; (figurative) beclouded, confused, troubled”) (from nūbēs (“cloud; (figurative) concealment, obscurity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”)) + -āre.
Definitions
Incapable of being cleared of clouds.
- As blue and gray go the clouds / Round and about, turning forever / Upon this focus which is the ineluctable you / This minute, this hour, this day, this afternoon that is forever, / Under this never inenubilable sky.
- Our blue inenubilable Zembla, and the red-capped Steinmann, and the motorboat in the sea cave, and—
Inexplicable, mysterious, unclear.
- For there is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires—that mysterious, inenubilable spirit, spirit of Oxford.
- But for some inenubilable reasons, it is not the law that he may lawfully arrest a guilty person whom the court opines he had not reasonable ground to suspect.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for inenubilable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA