unsearchable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ʌnˈsəːtʃəb(ə)l/
unsearchable
- That cannot be investigated or searched into; unknowable, inscrutable.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 3:
- He chastiseth and corrects, as to Him seems best, in His deep, unsearchable, and secret judgment, and all for our good.
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 103:
- Preachers warned […] that although God might sometimes make the meaning of his judgements clear they were normally unsearchable.
- That cannot be sought out or looked for.
- (computing) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.
- German: undurchsuchbar
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