1611. Cotgr., Incomprehensible, incomprehensible, vnconceiueable.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm., Titus ii. 14. Christ … willingly suffered such torments as are vnconceiuable.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Rev. ii. 17. The feast of a good conscience, which is unconceivable and full of glory.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., II. 203. Many and great Pleasures, yet hidden from our Eyes, unutterable, unconceivable.
1768. Woman of Honor, II. 133. The effect this had … would be unconceivable but for one just reflexion.
1838. [see UNCONCEIVED ppl. a. 1].
1867. Pusey, Eleven Addresses, xi. (1908), 143. The souls of those, who are departed hence in the grace of God, are in unconceivable bliss.
Hence Unconceivableness.
1611. Cotgr., Incomprehensibilité, incomprehensiblenesse, Inconceiuablenesse.
1655. H. More, App. Antid. Ath. (1712), 185. The unconceivableness of that line that is produced by the Motion of a Globe on a Plane.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. vii. 337. The unconceivablenesse of supposing that a body … should always send forth from itself species on all sides.
1854. Hallam, Hist. Lit. (ed. 4), III. iii. § 119, marg. Unconceivableness of infinity.
