Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not representable; incapable of being represented; not admitting of representation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being
represented orportrayed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I hope Schrader succeeds, though, ultimately, the Holocaust is irrepresentable, as the monstrous Shoah doccumentary (Claude Lantzmann, 1985) proves so well.
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The emperor, therefore, or -- as with a view to his solitary and unique character we ought to call him -- in the original irrepresentable term, the imperator, could not delegate his duties, or execute them in any avowed form by proxies or representatives.
The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822
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They take, namely, the words irrepresentable and impossible in one and the same meaning; and, according to the forms of sensuous evidence, the notion of the continuous and the infinite is doubtless impossible.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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An archetype represents something in human nature and the world that has a mystery to it, that in a sense is irrepresentable except by those who take some part of it and paint it red, white and blue and act it out for us to see.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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An archetype represents something in human nature and the world that has a mystery to it, that in a sense is irrepresentable except by those who take some part of it and paint it red, white and blue and act it out for us to see.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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An archetype represents something in human nature and the world that has a mystery to it, that in a sense is irrepresentable except by those who take some part of it and paint it red, white and blue and act it out for us to see.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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