incompris

"It is a pity" he writes to Mr. Ludlow, "that telling people what's right, won't make them do it; but not a new fact, though that ass the world has quite forgotten it; and assures you that dear sweet 'incompris' mankind only wants to be told the way to the millennium to walk willingly into it -- which is a lie.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Ah! it is a lovely dream! it is not impossible; it is difficult, but if realized, may it not be to the despair of souls — forgive me the hackneyed word — “incompris”?

Modeste Mignon 2007

Balzac had been her guest repeatedly; he had recognized in her one of the rare women, who by their intelligence and, as it were, instinctive appreciation of genius can compensate to a great _incompris_ like Balzac for the lack of recognition on the part of his contemporaries; one of those women near whom, thanks to tactful treatment, a depressed man will regain confidence in himself and courage to go on.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

He gave me quite a lecture on the dangers of the side-saddle, and said very earnestly that women ought to ride "astride" (at that time this was a thing _incompris_ in England).

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

We are all _incompris_, only more or less concerned for the mischance: all trying wrongly to do right; all fawning at each other's feet like dumb, neglected lap-dogs.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

We are all incompris, only more or less concerned for the mischance; all trying wrongly to do right; all fawning at each other’s feet like dumb, neglected lap-dogs.

Truth of Intercourse 1909

She is a sweet little darling, and ---- looks like a man of genius incompris.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

Henri Bordeaux excellently says, "L'esprit inquiet ne se contente de rien, le coeur inapaisé se croit incompris."

Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888

But even if it were so, it is, to say the least of it, doubtful whether Sterne suffered at all on this ground from the wounded feelings of the mari incompris, while it is next to certain that it does not need the sting of any such disappointment to account for his alienation.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Archbishop Laud was a _saint incompris_, and the good King

The Lady of the Aroostook William Dean Howells 1878