Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an untranslatable manner; so as not to be capable of translation.
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Examples
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Almost untranslatably, poet Gabriel Favela told me … over strong margaritas, 'Nosotros los mexicanos tuteamos a la muerte.
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Almost untranslatably, poet Gabriel Favela told me … over strong margaritas, 'Nosotros los mexicanos tuteamos a la muerte.
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Almost untranslatably, poet Gabriel Favela told me … over strong margaritas, 'Nosotros los mexicanos tuteamos a la muerte.
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Almost untranslatably, poet Gabriel Favela told me … over strong margaritas, 'Nosotros los mexicanos tuteamos a la muerte.
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The songs of dinosaurs were astoundingly rich and sweet and complex; untranslatably strange.
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And many, sublime in the valour of their faith, tore off the hair of her head and the nails of her fingers ( "even the tips of her ears, et mamillarum papillas," says untranslatably
The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847
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