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 […]