illegible

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Govr. Dudley no ways came into it; but said 'twas best as 'twas no body knew whose 'twas [word illegible,] to bring it up.

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  1. adjective Not legible or decipherable.

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  • It is preserved religiously; but the characters are all but illegible, and I needed a good magnifying-glass to be quite sure of such of them as remain. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • If I cannot come to-day, dear Zmeskall which is very possible, ask Baroness von ——[name illegible] to give you the pianoforte part of the Trios, and be so good as to send them and the other parts to me to-day. —  Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2
  • The handwriting was almost illegible, and Emma's story-telling talent had faded. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_09_The_Cat_Who_went_Underground
  • We went to the theatre and enjoyed "Adonis" [word illegible] acted very much. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Chapters From My Autobiography, by Mark Twain.
  • If someone scrambles a message to make it illegible, the original message is called plain text, and the scrambled message is called cipher text. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. = Spanish ilegible, from Latin in-privative + Late Latin legibilis, legible: see legible.
 

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/ɪˈlɛdʒɪbl/
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