1728. Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 201. I have heard it reported, resumed the Marquis with an undescribable Agitation, that he was … in love with a Spanish Lady.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ., 217. I felt such undescribable emotions within me.
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. liii. Let these describe the undescribable.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, v. (1861), 116. Graces and felicities not only unteachable, but undescribable.
Hence Undescribably adv.
1792. Charlotte Smith, Desmond, II. 149. She is in love!—Oh! undescribably in love.
1818. Mar. Edgeworth, Lett., 8 April. You … will understand … how undescribably and exquisitely it is mixed with pain and pleasure.
