a. [UN-1 7, 5 b.] = INEFFABLE. a.

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c. 1400.  Comm. Luke i. 20. (MS. Bodl. 143). Þe heuenly & vneffable natiuyte of crist.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John 26. Therfore there is felt an vneffable strength & efficacie.

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1575–85.  Abp. Sandys, Serm., 264. Yea, inestimable & vneffable was the loue of our gratious Lord.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, I. i. 1. God, whom the wisest men acknowledge to be a Power vneffable.

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1689.  Contempl. St. Man, II. iv. (1699), 160. The Joy and Happiness of God, must needs be infinite and uneffable.

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