inscrutableness
Example Sentences
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Mr. Spencer finds the basis of all religion in the inscrutableness of the Power which the universe manifests to us.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
My wonder was excited by the inscrutableness of the cause, but my wonder was unmixed with sorrow or fear.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
Ah Cho pondered their inscrutableness as he sat in the court room waiting the judgment.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by Jack London
Sometimes, wrought to a mystic mood by contemplating its ponderous inscrutableness, Pierre had called it the Terror Stone.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe.
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
