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

Not merely, therefore, is the phenomenon inexplicable to you, but the very nature of it is inapprehensible by you.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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 Newman, John Henry

Of the universal Aeons there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one Root, which is the Power invisible, inapprehensible Silence.

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

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 Wright, Almroth