inapprehensible
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Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
For here is a predicate which he sufficiently apprehends, what is inapprehensible in the proposition being confined to the subject.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Many other things are doubtless implied in infinity which, if we noticed them, would leave us quite cold; and still others, no doubt, are inapprehensible with our sort and degree of intellect.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
The novelty of the avowal rendered what it carried with it inapprehensible by him in its entirety.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
By reason of this last it was inapprehensible to him that there could be an objection to the sexes co-operating indiscriminately in work.
From The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage by Almroth Wright
