innominable

English

Etymology

From Middle English innominable, from Latin innominabilis, from in- (“not”) + nominare (“to name”). Compare French innominable.

Adjective

innominable (not comparable)

  1. Not to be named.
    • c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love
      Your fathers toforne you have cleped such lusty lyvenges after the flessh, “passions of desyre,” which are innominable tofore God and man both.
    • 1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ
      It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]
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