Definitions
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- noun The quality of being incalculable.
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- noun The quality of being
incalculable .
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Examples
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The incalculableness of human life: God fulfils himself in many unforeseen ways.
Cyropaedia 2007
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After all, journalism gave a deeper insight than the law into the fantastic possibilities of life, prepared one better to allow for the incalculableness of human impulses.
The Bolted Door 1908
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After all, journalism gave a deeper insight than the law into the fantastic possibilities of life, prepared one better to allow for the incalculableness of human impulses.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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In every heart lay the secret and sinister thought of the queerness and the incalculableness of Hilda.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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After all, journalism gave a deeper insight than the law into the fantastic possibilities of life, prepared one better to allow for the incalculableness of human impulses.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Edith Wharton 1899
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Under all his incalculableness there had always been a hard foundation of reliability: it seemed to be
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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There he saw sudden incalculableness of power abruptly shattering the continuities of routine, throwing life instantly into a new perspective, and making barren trunks break into sudden luxuriance like the palm; or, again, intimately interpenetrating soul with soul, -- "one near one is too far"; or entangling the whole creation in the inextricable embrace of God.
Robert Browning 1892
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The student who is thoroughly broken to the study of literary history is never a pessimist, though he may be very rarely an optimist: for the one thing of which he should be thoroughly convinced is its incalculableness.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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There he saw sudden incalculableness of power abruptly shattering the continuities of routine, throwing life instantly into a new perspective, and making barren trunks break into sudden luxuriance like the palm; or, again, intimately interpenetrating soul with soul, ” “one near one is too far”; or entangling the whole creation in the inextricable embrace of God.
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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